On 13 March 2010 01:26, John Francis <jo...@panix.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:40:10AM +0800, David Savage wrote: >> On 13 March 2010 00:32, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: >> > I know that what we call cookies, you call biscuits. >> > >> > What ?do you call what we call biscuits? >> > >> > American biscuits? >> >> They aren't exactly the same but the closest thing would be a scone. > > Note, too, that how you pronounce the word is significant. > > The educated and cultured of us pronounce it to rhyme with "gone". > The peasantry mis-pronounce it to rhyme with "shown". > > (It's actually a regional thing. The scots use the short "o". As > you move down the isles the long "o" becomes more predominant. By > the time you get to Nottingham, where my wife was raised, almost > everybody used the long "o". But as you move even further south > the short form reappears.)
Yep. Here it's not s-kown, it's s-con. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
