Guest pd.ryder Posted July 7, 2004 Report Posted July 7, 2004 Just stumbled onto this thread - whatabout GARAGE? "Ga-ridge" or "Gar-rarge" (the place you buy fuel or put your car overnight)? Being a Midlander by birth I was always saying ga-ridge with a damned awful accent. I've still always smiled inwardly at those pronouncing it gar-rarge :D By the way, we always said scoans in a very common manner!!
Guest mike-oh Posted February 6, 2005 Report Posted February 6, 2005 Bumpedy bump! The debate has reared it's ugly head once more. And could a mod do something about the chart, it's gone loopy! Cheers
Guest Pondrew Posted February 6, 2005 Report Posted February 6, 2005 (edited) Hey I missed this first time round... I say Skon, Barth, and Gar-ridge and hail from Croydon (what a lovely place :roll: ) Edited February 6, 2005 by Pondrew
Guest Posted February 6, 2005 Report Posted February 6, 2005 Definately skon, and bath (not barth). mind you, 271.43% agree with me in the poll, so that's gotta be the way it is then! ;-)
Guest Chaser81 Posted February 7, 2005 Report Posted February 7, 2005 I'm from Oxford (rrraa rrraa rrraa... very, very drunk!) and I say Skon.
Guest mike-oh Posted February 7, 2005 Report Posted February 7, 2005 Come on on the common skon folk! WOOHOO!
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted February 7, 2005 Report Posted February 7, 2005 Poll percentages fixed :lol: P
Guest vanessa Posted February 7, 2005 Report Posted February 7, 2005 It is not a smart-phon, is it?!! Its a smart-PHOAN so, in my book, it is a SCOAN... Vanessa (wife of Paul [MVP], Founder of MoDaCo Smartphoan), who was dragged up in Surrey!
Guest mike-oh Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 I'm honered you chose this thread to be the first you post in! Shame you're wrong tho :D :lol: right i'm GON (as in gone)! :(
Guest TigerNet Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 For me it's scoan and Bath (and brung up there too!!!) ...er, that's Bath not Scoan...heh heh...
Guest nickcornaglia Posted February 12, 2005 Report Posted February 12, 2005 I just say cookie! :lol:
Guest Drewtech Posted February 24, 2005 Report Posted February 24, 2005 Simple fact is there is no correct version of this. Most dictionaries list both of them and I have to admit that I am not even consistent myself. I more often say scon but sometimes say scone.
Guest og1962 Posted February 26, 2005 Report Posted February 26, 2005 I was born in Leeds in 1943 and until I was about 40 never heard anybody say scon except in the South or certain parts of Harrogate. Now people have become confused and Northerners are worried that scone sounds a bit posh and Southerners think scon sounds a bit northern so the old pronunciations are becoming transposed. If you want proof ask anyone over 80 what they say.
Guest fraktal Posted February 28, 2005 Report Posted February 28, 2005 Yaah! Boo! It's skon and anyone who says scoan is most obviously much less cleverer than them who doesn't. ahem. As for the garage question, I think I am possibly alone in the world in that I say gararj, [with an "aah" but a "juh"] as opposed to garij [with an "ih" and a "juh"] or garagsh [with an "aah" and a "shuh"]
Guest dodding nonkey Posted March 16, 2005 Report Posted March 16, 2005 Potatoe - potahto, tomatoe - tomahto, Personaly I keep my Caah in the Garahje, although being borrn a Scott, raised in Suthhern Effrica, currently living in Zummerzet Ah'm not kwite zure how one shood pronounse the wurd scoan or is it skon? In fect Ahm no even sure if the langwije ahm spiking is Inglidge or not an who sez tha quin is right any way !!? lol !
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