Fascinating. I find formalisms and honorifics one of the most under talked about but fascinating parts of linguistics because of how I think it subconsciously affects our view of social structure
how do you say knife :p"Herbs".
The first time I heard a British person say "herbs" I assumed he was referring to a mark ass buster.
Sconn is actually correct isn't it? I thought scone was the chav way of pronouncing it.
Uhh, huh.. that's odd. Scone rhyming with "own" is typically mocked as a 'Queen's English' way of saying the word in my experience. With it rhyming with "on" typically seen as the 'common' way of saying it.
I say it to rhyme with "own" and I get mocked for being posh. Either is valid, though: see phone or sconce. English pronunciation is messed up.
I'd always thought it was the way people 'wot wanted 2 sound propr posh' said it, and it was sort of ironic as a result.
I wasn't suggesting either was particularly correct, just more amazed that the "own" variation was seen as chavvy when my experience it's the opposite.
That makes sense in a roundabout way. Originally seen as posh, picked up by people that want to appear posh but aren't and thus becomes associated with their use of it.
Nah the posh way was always the correct way to pronounce it, and then 'scone' was just used by people wanting to sound posh, but weren't.
Off topic but the real question is what type of scone are we talking about and what with it?
Ooh shall we talk cream first or jam first? Me and my girlfriend are for opposite sides of the Cornwall Devon divide (sorta) so we disagree
I feel like a scrub now because I didn't know this was a thing. I usually go cream first only because I find it's easier to apply jam to cream than vice versa. I fucking love clotted cream.
Look how nice it could be, if only we adopted a phonetic alphabet.
Devon is jam first (like cream on a pudding) Cornwall is cream first (as if it's butter). I'm the latter.
Again, I have never heard a British person pronounce jaguar like this. Jag-u-are, not jag-u-wor.
This. How could I forget about this. Its not even like aluminium/aluminum where the spelling is different. People are literally missing out a letter when saying the word.
Oh yeah, this is THE WORST. I mean it just sounds awful, how could anyone have let that pronunciation flourish. It's wrong
Isn't the British pronunciation of "private" and "privacy" different? At least the U.S. is consistent in that regard.
Pry-vut
You didn't play a good old game of conchers as a kid using horse chestnuts on shoestrings?
This entire thread is people thinking Brits pronounce words in ways they absolutely do not.
It's the British English form even though it's not as commonly used anymore:
