Do Other People Usually Perceive You to be in the Majority or the Minority?

[lewisnotmiller]

But have you tried them with clotted cream and jam? It's amazing.
I switch between sco-own and sc-on XD

*scratches his head*

It's pronounced sc-on. If there is any other issues you have with speaking proper English, just let me know. We have (obviously) perfected the art down here. It's much like beer brewing. You guys have been doing it longer, but have made such a balls-up of it, we just decided to fix it for ya.

 

[Aquitaine]

But have you tried them with clotted cream and jam? It's amazing.
I switch between sco-own and sc-on XD

I guess that makes you a Double Agent in the British Scone Pronunciation War.

*scratches his head*

It's pronounced sc-on.

My God we cannot be friends now.

Why on Earth would it be pronounced like that? We pronounce "Cone" as c-own so why then would "Scone" be pronounced as sc-on?
Would you say "Oh look, there's a traffic con in the middle of the road!"?

 

[lewisnotmiller]

My God we cannot be friends now.

Why on Earth would it be pronounced like that? We pronounce "Cone" as c-own so why then would "Scone" be pronounced as sc-on?
Would you say "Oh look, there's a traffic con in the middle of the road!"?

Hey, it's your crazy-**** language. We're just the poor convicts trying to fix it.

 

[Breathe]

How do you pronounce scone? | OxfordWords blog


So, I just went and checked its etymology, and the answer is...

 

[illykitty]

I live in the UK:

-White woman
-Canadian/Hungarian
-Bisexual
-Theist - looking for a path/religion
-Happily married
-No children, not planning to have them
-Cat owner :3 (UK tends to favour dogs)
-Gamer (since a little girl)
-Don't drink, smoke, do drugs, tan or go clubbing. I absolutely dislike those things.

I'm not visibly a minority but if I start talking often people ask me where I'm from (people often don't recognise the accent). I don't see myself as fitting in the UK culture either.

Edit: I always pronounce scone as rhyming with cone. That's what my husband told me and he's a posh boy.

 

[Wherenextcolumbus]

Oh my days this is so funny. Anyway according to UK polls I'm the majority lol!
But yes good point about the cone.

 

[Breathe]

The etymology points to "scone" being more correct.

I've always said 'scon', but I don't usually eat them. Time to switch pronunciation.

 

[Erebus]

Scone, bone, phone, tone, cone, stone, crone, drone, prone, clone, zone, throne...

Scone, gone, shone...

Seems the pattern tends to favour scone rhyming with cone. Not sure which way the etymology favours since nobody quite seems to agree on that one either. However, since it's become a dialectical thing, there's just no right answer
For what it's worth I rhyme it with cone. The other way sounds weirdly posh to me. People who rhyme it with gone tell me my pronunciation sounds posh though so there you go.

As for the OP:

I'm white, English, Male and working/lower middle class. That puts me in a pretty large percentage of the country. Being a theist who is neither Christian nor Muslim as well as having tattoos/piercings and listening to Metal/Industrial music puts me in the 'alternative' crowd. While that still covers a lot of people it's generally seen as a minority.

So I guess I'm a bit of both depending which way you look at it.