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I’m so conscious of saying it ‘wrong’ I will always choose a different variety of cake unless I’m out with family! 😂

My Mum was a Perthshire lass. Scone was always scone (con) but Scone Palace near where she was born was always Scoon.

For me, it's 'scone' as in 'bone', not as in 'gone'. It'll never be settled for good, same as the 'cream or jam first' debate won't be.

I actually make my own scones and don't care what people call them, as long as they include the word 'delicious' 😁

Grannybags

I think we’re a rare breed MissA!

We are.
No wonder it's said thay English is one of the hardest languages to learn.

Autumncolours

Northerner English tends to stress the first syllable whereas Southern English stresses the second syllable as explained in OED entry above. They are both right. It is simply due to different regional accents. Nothing to get worked up about!

Being Scottish, I would have said it was more a generational issue than a geographic one, but it might be a matter of, dare I say it? whether you were sent to a private school or a council school.

My generation learned from parents and grandparents and most assuredly from our teachers that the stress in distribute is on the second syllable, whereas distribution has it on the third! The same applies to contribute and contribution.

Retread wrote Flowers - I say CampaNUla

I say it ‘flowers’. 😂

🤗😁

I laughed at my son yesterday when he told me he had a job to do in Moygashel.
Had to get him to say it twice.

Not Moga shul.

Not important but interesting.

I’ve recently realised that I say trowma (for trauma) rather than trawma, similarly trowmatic. No one else seems to.

Grannybags

It’s scone as in cone… 😁

No it's not, it's scone as in gone. (Actually I don't care)
If it's the Stone of Scone, I believe it rhymes with moon.

I’m with the scone-bone team. And I’m a “southerner”.

Magenta8

Google:-

duh-STRI-byoot distribute

kuhn-TRIB-yoot. contribute

I don't pronounce either like that. There must be something wrong with me.

I say con-tribute -there’s no u at the start,
and distribute, though I also say
distri bu tion schedule.
I guess there’s no hope for me.
My current irritation is hearing pecans pronounced peck aans and basil pronounced bay zl, but since it’s our US visitors , I don’t argue.

Well I was brought up saying 'scone' rhyming with 'stone', and only discovered relatively recently that one of my parents was brought up with the 'sconn' pronunciation.
Trouble is, I can't remember now which parent overruled the other - the Scottish one or the Yorkshire one. 😂

I can’t remember who said this, but
^You might buy a scone (rhymes with stone), but when you’ve eaten it, it’s scone (gone).

I wonder what the original pronunciation was of 'Wednesday'. I have never noticed anyone actually pronouncing it as it is written (wed-nes-day). Mind you, I am one of those annoying people who has always ignored the first 'r' of February, so perhaps I'm just not particularly observant with some words.

I loved it when we were on holiday in Turkey to be told "Sorry, the restaurant is close-ed".

On the subject of first names and last names.

I met two people separately and their last name was spelt Liddell. One pronounced it Lid-ell and the other pronounced it Liddle to rhyme with fiddle.

My late Irish aunt was called Caitlin, pronounced Kathleen not the Kate-Lynn.

Oldnproud

I wonder what the original pronunciation was of 'Wednesday'. I have never noticed anyone actually pronouncing it as it is written (wed-nes-day). Mind you, I am one of those annoying people who has always ignored the first 'r' of February, so perhaps I'm just not particularly observant with some words.

I think it was named for the God Woden Oldnproud, I still call it Woden'sday if I'm feeling witchy!

I’m Irish and it’s sconn for me. And, for no other reason than that I prefer it, the jam goes on the sconn first and the cream second.
Clemmertis because clemaytis sounds clumsy.
Thankyou Mollygo for your humorous additions!