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Aha! That means you say it to rhyme with gone!

FannyCornforth

And mobile classrooms, they’re known as mobiles too

So a mobile classroom and a classroom mobile are two entirely different things!

I imagine that you’d make a very good cruciverbalist EP

FannyCornforth

Maw
If my pronunciation of ‘scone’ offends, I’m sure that you’d be horrified by much of my diction!
While we’re at it - I put the jam on first, is that correct ?

Why on earth should anyone be offended by either of the two alternative pronunciations of scone? Neither is 'right'. Neither is 'better' or 'superior'. Goodness me, I didn't realise such snobbery still surrounded this word

FannyCornforth

Aha! That means you say it to rhyme with gone!

They certainly don’t hang about when I’m around

As in ‘what’s the fastest cake on earth?’

FannyCornforth

Aha! That means you say it to rhyme with gone!

Oh no it doesn't.

I don't eat them so the word just doesn't come up for me. I know there are at least two pronunciations around and that it is a contentious issue.

Perhaps one could look at the etymology of the word.

I have now found this.

www.lexico.com/definition/scone

Now that is enlightening.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scone includes a poem

What sort of jam?

I asked the maid in dulcet tone
To order me a buttered scone;
The silly girl has been and gone
And ordered me a buttered scone.

FannyCornforth

Instead of ‘kill two birds with one stone’, I say ‘feed two birds with one scone’.

Sadly, my success with scones might well achieve the same outcome as the original saying. ?

? love it MissA

MissA that is excellent! ?

FannyCornforth

I imagine that you’d make a very good cruciverbalist EP

I had to look up that word.

Alas, I could never understand the cryptic ones.

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The poem isn't me waxing lyrical.
I copied it from Elederly Person's link.
Good though, isnt it?

Oh!! Elderly! My predictive text keeps changing words...

I had a dreadful craving for a cheese scone yesterday. I justified giving in to it by walking a mile to buy one. It was delicious , but “it’s gone now “

I thought at first you meant like Sir Humphrey.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQBuz8D_9GM

www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-s-Y4xA9pk

Note the use of the phrase 'perpendicular pronoun'.

I m whistling ????
I think you should chat to Rufus, EP he’d tell you some jokes in Australian gudday cobbler

You might also find you have much in common with Michael12

Lucca

I had a dreadful craving for a cheese scone yesterday. I justified giving in to it by walking a mile to buy one. It was delicious , but “it’s gone now “

You bought a scone
Now it's gone
I suppose that you could phone
To er better stop now

Oh I do love a cheese scone (the type that rhymes with gone)
In the isle of wight they served them with cream cheese and tomato chutney.

HRU? LTNS, RUOK?
B4 U go afk, hand
CU ltr

I say scone, as in gone. Interestingly The Stone of Scone, as in The Stone of Destiny or as it is known in England, The Coronation Stone is *Scone as in Stone.

Scone as in bone there’s a bone in my scone oor-err
Not a bon in my scon there’s an e on the end which changes it and gone should actually be spelt gon

How you say the number one then?
Anybody count woan, two three?

EP presuming you are retired what did you do in your working life ? You are obviously very intelligent and quite single minded