Scon Or Scown?

[Zacs-Master]

Well, I just heard Joanna Lumley pronounce it Scon and that's pretty definitive for me!

[Zacs-Master]

Sorry that should probably have been scohn.

[joggerjayne]

Hey, guys x x x ... Happy Sunday

Not entirely relevant to the thread, but just thought I'd say hello.

Oh, it's definitely "sconn" by the way. To rhyme with "gone".

[Zacs-Master]

Hi JJ. Just enjoying a glass of red and trying not to think too much about the dreaded W word. Well well well Joanna and you pronounce on Scon irrefutable evidence. ;-

[jim360]

This is one of those arguments that runs and runs. Do you say "sconn", or have you no sense of shame?

[Zacs-Master]

I thought my OP was fairly clear Jimmy. Scon.

[joggerjayne]

The W word?

Oh, yeah yeah ... Monday tomorrow.

Now I feel a bit guilty that I went to see my BF last weekend, and decided to stay for a week.

I suppose I'd better think about the W word. No, stuff it ... it can wait until tomorrow.

[ummmm]

I say 'scon'

[stuey]

It should rhyme with "cone" or moan"...So there!...End of!...Say no more!

[jim360]

I thought my post was implying that I agreed with you.

[joggerjayne]

Zacs, you're probably right to change it to "scohn" (to rhyme with "own"?)

"scown" looks like it might rhyme with "frown" or "clown" (although that would make little sense)

[Zacs-Master]

Sorry Jimmy. Read as a question to me.

[retrocop]

I always say scone to rhyme with moan or bone and I am positive I am wrong.
Like baff and barf or carsle instead of cassle (bath and castle btw)

[Zacs-Master]

Yes JJ. I was over emphasising.

Is Switzerland all lush pastures and pristine grazing beasts in the summer. Or did you only see the ceiling?

[joggerjayne]

I'm trying to think of any accent in which "scohne" sounds right.

Even in, say, Glaswegian, it should be "sconn".

[Zacs-Master]

Retro. I don't think you can get a 'posher bird' than Joanna so yes you're wrong. ;-)

[stuey]

However they pronounce it in Hove, Actually would actually be quite kerrect.

[trt]

Its scone.

[joggerjayne]

Zacs, stop it ... (smacks Zacs!)

And yes, Suisse is lovely at this time of year. It lives up to its stereotype of jangley cow bells and houses with carved wooden bits.

Except in Geneva, obviously, which is just a pretty version of the West End.

[Zacs-Master]

Trt, how dare you disagree with her Lumlyness. And I bet she's never done a Nazi salute!

[maggiebee]

Scone (to eat) is pronounced "scawn" in Scotland. While the stone of Scone is pronounded "Skoon"