On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Alan Jones wrote:
> "Tony Mountifield" <tony@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> 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.
Same here - does this mean the "stone" version is dying out, I don't
remember
hearing it at all since I was young, and I'd feel too self-conscious to
use it now.
BTW, I would NOT classify a "scone" as a "bun". But we've been through
this
before - others seem to use "bun" for a much wider category of things than
I do. I'd say a bun has to be both sweet and made of dough.
Matthew Huntbach
