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How do you pronounce "scone"?

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I need your help to settle this perpetual disagreement in my home. I’m team ‘skon’ whereas my husband is team ‘skone.’

Some context, we are not native to the UK so I will humbly accept consensus.

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Loccy@feddit.uk
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I’ll bite.

It’s a “skone”. Clue is in the fact it’s spelt “scone”, ie just substitute the K for a C. It it was a skon it would be called a scon.

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sideone@lemmy.worldM
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Skone, like phone and bone.

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icky_mess@lemmy.world
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Skon, like shone and gone.

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Doug [he/him]@midwest.social
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shone and gone

Those don’t rhyme

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EinfachUnersetzlich@lemm.ee
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If it was suppose to be a skone it would be called a skone.

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Jaidyn999@lemmy.world
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The town in Scotland is pronounced “Skoon”.

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NoTime@lemmy.one
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This is the correct answer.

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Hanhula@kbin.social
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Which is precisely why ‘shone’ and ‘shown’ are said the same way, of course.

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