Re: new interactive online dialect survey

"Tony Mountifield" <tony@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:ffht8c$c4a$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In article <ffdg18$anj$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Ildhund <jnllb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> "Does your pronunciation of 'scone' [a variety of bun] rhyme with
>> 'gone' or 'stone' or 'boon'?"
>
> To my ears, 'gone' has a longer vowel sound than the similar
> pronunciation of 'scone', which I would liken more to 'con'.
>
> Having said that, I say 'scone' to rhyme with 'stone'. I've never heard
> it pronounced scoon.

I seem to remember that "scoon" is the proper pronunciation of the
Scottish 
place-name "Scone". The bun is "scon" for me now, but the "stone" version 
was what I heard as a child.

Alan Jones