The great scon con

[caddyman]

To compound my earlier dietary forays, I have now eaten scones¹. With butter. Maybe later I shall eat more with clotted cream and strawberry jam.

I have my Remagel tablets at the ready.


¹The ones I eat rhyme with stone, cone and phone. They're better than those that rhyme eponymously with con.

Comments

[davidt3001.livejournal.com]

As American essays at the scone -- which rhymes with gone, one and Tron -- range between dismal and toxic, I make my own. I also explain tirelessly that they are meant to be fluffy, only slightly sweet (unless they contain cheese, in which case they shouldn't be sweet at all), and that a two inch diameter is as large as they should go. They definitely should not be the size and texture of a half brick.

It is curious that Americans can't make scones because they have the the mis-named biscuit. This item (from the South, apparently) is very close to a scone, although slightly fluffier and shortened with lard, rather than butter. It's great with a hunk of breakfast sausage.

[colonel-maxim.livejournal.com]

Barbarian - you have probably goan downstairs for woan.

Ston the crows

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

You are not alon in your mispronunciation of the word.

Re: Ston the crows

[ellefurtle.livejournal.com]

Bah! I'm with teh Colonel on this one!

Although I should confess my family calls them Sconoids, so I am probably not in a position of authority here.

[ysharros.livejournal.com]

"Scon con" -- isn't that the dance where a bunch of French wimmin in frilly skirts throw said skirts around while doing leg flips?

I also hereby announce that I shall call them Scanes. If Wrath can be wroth, then scones can be scanes. I still can't decide if that's a long or a short A though. "Skaynes" sounds like I'm trying to be posh, "Skahnes" sounds like I'm trying to be American, and neither is entirely true.

Per'aps Ai should call zem "ser-connes" viz ze French aksent. Zut alors!

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

As I am uncertain of the correct pronunscuation (but do prefer "scoan"), when it comes up in conversation I always pronounce it contrary to whatever the other person says. But then I would, wouldn't I...