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sasasha wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2025 8:04 am
/nɒtɛndəduːd/ wrote: ↑Sat Feb 15, 2025 12:54 pm
Lērisama wrote: ↑Sat Feb 15, 2025 12:49 pm ¹ /scɔnz/, and anyone who says otherwise is wrong
I typically pronounce it as /skɔnz/, but I love the use of /c/
That certainly brings a whole other dimension to the old how do you pronounce ‘scone’ question.
The definitive answer is /skɒn/, certainly not anything like /skoun/. Anyone who says otherwise is wrong.
Unless you're talking about the town in Perthshire, which as all right-thinking people know is /skun/.
*I* used to be a front high unrounded vowel. *You* are just an accidental diphthong.
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I have never heard an American say anything like /skɑn/ myself.
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Ennadinut'a gaare d'ate eetatadi siiman.
T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.
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alice wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2025 2:23 pm Unless you're talking about the town in Perthshire, which as all right-thinking people know is /skun/.
personally, I am a left-thinking person
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So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. Genesis 11: 8-9a (NIV)
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alice wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2025 2:23 pm
sasasha wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2025 8:04 am
/nɒtɛndəduːd/ wrote: ↑Sat Feb 15, 2025 12:54 pm

I typically pronounce it as /skɔnz/, but I love the use of /c/
That certainly brings a whole other dimension to the old how do you pronounce ‘scone’ question.
The definitive answer is /skɒn/, certainly not anything like /skoun/. Anyone who says otherwise is wrong.
Unless you're talking about the town in Perthshire, which as all right-thinking people know is /skun/.
Thank you for your right-thinkingness. My only difference would be my English IPA¹

¹ /skɔn/ and /skɵwn/, respectively
LZ – Lēri Ziwi
PS – Proto Sāzlakuic (ancestor of LZ)
PRk – Proto Rākēwuic
XI – Xú Iạlan
VN – verbal noun
SUP – supine
DIRECT – verbal directional
My language stuff
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