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simsample
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#26 Old 11th Oct 2015 at 12:41 PM
I don't think it matters at all how you pronounce it. What does matter is whether you put the jam or the cream on first...
pizza
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#27 Old 11th Oct 2015 at 12:44 PM
Cornish cream tea laws state that one MUST put jam on first then the cream :p
joandsarah77
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#28 Old 11th Oct 2015 at 12:49 PM
Jam first.
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simsample
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#29 Old 11th Oct 2015 at 12:57 PM
Or you could do it like this and then smush it all together in a sort of scone sammich...
pirate_wolf_12
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#30 Old 11th Oct 2015 at 2:00 PM
Quote: Originally posted by simsample
I don't think it matters at all how you pronounce it. What does matter is whether you put the jam or the cream on first...

Jam first. JAM FIRST.

*flips table* Jam is too heavy to go on top of cream, it'll just make a mess. *tearing at face* Just one ghastly mess.
maxon
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#31 Old 11th Oct 2015 at 4:41 PM
And I was going to make clafoutis tonight ...
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Kankritty
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#32 Old 12th Oct 2015 at 6:13 PM
I'm Welsh and it's always jam, then cream on a s(gone).
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pikeman101
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#33 Old 12th Oct 2015 at 6:52 PM
Google has weighed in:

https://translate.google.ca/?ie=UTF...b#auto/en/scone

It's s(cone), guys (also how I pronounce it).
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#34 Old 12th Oct 2015 at 8:15 PM
I didn't think anyone was disputing the spelling?
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#35 Old 14th Oct 2015 at 3:56 PM
My friend pronounces it s(cone) but drops the "o" lower, as in "s(cohn)" - does anyone else do this?
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Yinepu
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#36 Old 14th Oct 2015 at 4:33 PM
But isn't cohn and gone the same when paired with the character S?
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Kankritty
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#37 Old 14th Oct 2015 at 7:05 PM
Quote: Originally posted by HarVee
But isn't cohn and gone the same when paired with the character S?


Looking it that way, yes. I should've put the IPA instead.
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GnatGoSplat
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#38 Old 14th Oct 2015 at 8:51 PM
Quote: Originally posted by maxon
I didn't think anyone was disputing the spelling?


I think he might be talking about that little speaker icon that you click and it says the word through your speakers.

It's pronounced s(cone) for me (same as the little speaker icon says). Mainly because that's how I've heard it pronounced on TV and if it's on TV, it's gotta be true, right?

I've never had a scone.
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r_deNoube
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#39 Old 14th Oct 2015 at 10:01 PM Last edited by r_deNoube : 14th Oct 2015 at 10:33 PM. Reason: Illustrate.
Quote: Originally posted by GnatGoSplat
I think he might be talking about that little speaker icon that you click and it says the word through your speakers.

Yes, I think you're right.

That little speaker is fun, and it can get you from a state of no clue whatsoever to a state of knowing one valid pronunciation, which is pretty appealing. That's the candy -- the arsenic is the insidious idea that there is only one valid pronunciation for any word, i.e., only one dialect of any language.

The developers might not even have held that belief themselves, but it sure simplifies the UI design, eh? Just like it's easier to process a form with "Race/Ethnicity (Choose One)" even though that's a crock. Too.


Quote: Originally posted by GnatGoSplat
... and if it's on TV, it's gotta be true, right?
That's correct, yes.
Kankritty
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#40 Old 19th Oct 2015 at 5:58 PM
Quote: Originally posted by r_deNoube
That's correct, yes.



I'll have to be more observant during next year's Bake Off - if they do s(gone)s.
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tsyokawe
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#41 Old 19th Oct 2015 at 7:30 PM
This is really important, or I wouldn't interrupt, but

What do you guys in the UK call these?
Cuz we USofA-ers call them English Muffins.

I like mine with real butter and bitter marmalade.
pizza
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#42 Old 19th Oct 2015 at 7:40 PM Last edited by pizza : 19th Oct 2015 at 7:55 PM. Reason: clarity
Quote: Originally posted by tsyokawe
This is really important, or I wouldn't interrupt, but

What do you guys in the UK call these?
Cuz we USofA-ers call them English Muffins.

I like mine with real butter and bitter marmalade.


I'm from the UK and I call them muffins too I love them with butter :p
grammapat
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#43 Old 19th Oct 2015 at 7:45 PM
I thought pizza was in UK too. I'm American (not meaning to start a discussion about what we should call ourselves ) --English muffins. A must for "shit on a shingle" (hay, I'M not the one named that!)
tsyokawe
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#44 Old 19th Oct 2015 at 8:16 PM
Quote: Originally posted by pizza
I'm from the UK and I call them muffins too I love them with butter :p


omg. You mean I've found a word we actually use the same way?

I love the way they taste with butter...so melty in the little nooks and crannies. Damn.
I'm gonna hafta go buy me some tomorrow.
efolger997
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#45 Old 19th Oct 2015 at 8:47 PM
I say s(cone) but scones to me are these things in the picture. They are pastry like and delicious.
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#46 Old 19th Oct 2015 at 9:00 PM
Quote: Originally posted by tsyokawe
This is really important, or I wouldn't interrupt, but

What do you guys in the UK call these?
Cuz we USofA-ers call them English Muffins.

Yes, that's a muffin (at least in the northwest) - that's not to say it isn't called something else elsewhere in the country. We have a remarkable array and variety and inconsistency of names for our bread and pastries. If you were thinking of crumpet - No, it's not, this is a crumpet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crumpet
entirely different beast.

And if anyone else from here says the other thing, I'll be over there with a ruler to thwack your knuckles.
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tsyokawe
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#47 Old 19th Oct 2015 at 9:03 PM
Oh boy. I think we might need a chart.
grammapat
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#48 Old 19th Oct 2015 at 11:56 PM
That's an interesting link. The crumpet there looks at first like what we call English muffin, but it's not. The English muffin looks smooth on the top but when you CUT it the CUT sides have all those holes. I would like to look at recipes for them all. I HAVE tried making scones & it is WAY harder and more complicated then you would think. with special flour and lots of beating to get that fine texture.
madmaud94
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#49 Old 20th Oct 2015 at 12:21 AM
Traffic-cone scone. I'd never even heard anyone say it "scahn" until I went to Australia a few weeks ago, and it kind of threw me. I really want some now, though...
simbalena
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#50 Old 20th Oct 2015 at 10:46 AM
Quote: Originally posted by madmaud94
I'd never even heard anyone say it "scahn" until I went to Australia a few weeks ago, and it kind of threw me.


But Australians say "scon" or perhaps s-gone if they have a very thick accent.
I wouldn't put a lot of effort into getting it transported.
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