Re: new interactive online dialect survey

Tony Mountifield schrieb:
> 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 always thought this was only the pronunciation of the stone under the 
coronation chair/throne.

Regards, Einde O'Callaghan