John Francis wrote: > > 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.)
You say scone and I say ... er ... scone... Incidentally in Guernsey where Karin (my other half) comes from, a Guernsey Biscuit is a soft bread roll. Guernsey is about as far south as you can get in the British Isles and there just about everyone uses the long "o" version. I, from southern England, use the short "o". One of those trivial things that generates marital disharmony for a few minutes each year. Chris -- 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.
