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submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

If it was suppose to be a skone it would be called a skone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Skone, like phone and bone.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Skon, like shone and gone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

shone and gone

Those don't rhyme

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

The town in Scotland is pronounced "Skoon".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

This is the correct answer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Which is precisely why 'shone' and 'shown' are said the same way, of course.