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.
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.
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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The town in Scotland is pronounced “Skoon”.
If it was suppose to be a skone it would be called a skone.
Skone, like phone and bone.
Skon, like shone and gone.
Those don’t rhyme
This is the correct answer.
Which is precisely why ‘shone’ and ‘shown’ are said the same way, of course.