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Re: new interactive online dialect survey

by "Alan Jones" <atj@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Oct 22, 2007 at 04:33 PM

"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
 




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Re: new interactive online dialect survey
"Ildhund" <j  2007-10-20 19:03:58 
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"Alan Jones" &l  2007-10-20 19:29:37 
Re: new interactive online dialect survey
"John Briggs" &  2007-10-20 19:57:56 
Re: new interactive online dialect survey
Barbara Bailey <rabrab  2007-10-21 01:45:19 
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tony@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (  2007-10-22 10:15:40 
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"Alan Jones" &l  2007-10-22 16:33:19 
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"Father Ignatius&quo  2007-10-22 18:39:29 
Re: new interactive online dialect survey
"Ildhund" <j  2007-10-22 21:56:13 
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"Ildhund" <j  2007-10-22 21:51:32 
Re: new interactive online dialect survey
Einde O'Callaghan <ein  2007-10-22 23:24:07 

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