When people pronounce scones as "scoans" instead of "sgones"
There is no "a" in scones.
Saying "scoans" makes you sound like a posh twat. This really, really riles me up.
Stop doing it, please.
(IHateSprouts is baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:04, 14 replies)

Also, it makes the joke about the fastest cake in the world fail.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:14, closed)

Normally
adding an E to the end of a word with an O in it changes the sound of the O.
Scone has an e on the end, therefore it's pronounced 'scoan'. HTH.
( Noo_Noo Is now 'BeerElf Jnr', I guess :), Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:16, closed)

What about the Stone of Scone, then?
There it's pronounced 'Scoon'.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:57, closed)

Oh god don't start this.
It's possibly the single most pointless argument in human history.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:17, closed)

yet we don't pronounce "boner" as though it had a double N...english language foibles!

grASS or grARSE? bATH or bARTH? etc etc
(asme, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:19, closed)

grARSE and bARTH
but scON.
( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Fri 1 Apr 2011, 0:30, closed)

^ this
But I pARSE on gLAWsterSHYer tendency to pronounce gas as gARSE - freaks!
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 22:55, closed)

I get your drift
but I feel I must inform you of the presence of an "o" in scone. Like in "Rome" or "gnome."

Some words have the same spelling but are pronounced differently, let's call them "heteronyms." Like "row" (argument) and "row" (a boat).

This does not apply to the word "scone," which, as every pedant knows, is pronounced with an "o" (as in "grown").

The only explanation for your mis-pronounciation is that you must a rational b3tan misrepresenting your hatred.

Cheers.
(IdlePeAcEsign if trouble were my mistress, i'd send her to them, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:20, closed)

Two thirds of people
in Britain rhyme it with 'gone', apparently.
(Valentine_Sprake immanentising the eschaton since 1983, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:33, closed)

tiny genius
click - because writing scones as "sgones" and it sounding correct is AMAZING. (but there's no G, how is this possible?!?!?)
almost as good as saying "beer can" and it sounding like "bacon" but in a Jamaican accent.
small things...........
(dyllon nice beaver., Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:50, closed)

its bloody scoan..
sgnoes is what the pretentious southern twats call them. Now where is me barnsley chop.
(Phooey I COOK MUD, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 19:33, closed)

I see your point...
...but I don't pronounce cones as gones.
(elfinpunk Touching Cloth Since, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 19:50, closed)

well you clearly should
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 19:58, closed)

It's pronounced 'skon'
'cos you eat it and it's gone...

/coat
( snee held his breath since, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 12:23, closed)