Scones and crumpets are what I like!
Scones and crumpets are what I like!
-=rayna.keith=-
...When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible...
Ahhh but are the scones pronounced "skon" - sounds like "gone" or "skown" - sounds like "phone"?Originally Posted by raynaputi
Scones and crumpets are what I like!
This is vitally important. I am told the sounds like gone one is correct, and the phone one is a northern thing used by northerners who think it sounds posh, and they are wannabe home counties people and somehow think people in the south say it like phone.
Southern softies say Scone as in phone,Yorkshiremen say scone as in gone!
I agree !
I say scone, as in gone.
Oh, and I don't like them with currants and sultanas, like my mother used to make.
Common people call them schones.
... whereas, Perth folks' pronunciation of the [practically] adjoining village of Scone, is "Skoon" (location of the historical Palace from which the so~called, 'Stone of Destiny' was famously stolen ...
Of course I also like a bit of Crumpet.Scones and crumpets are what I like!
Do you mean Pikelets Rayna?Scones and crumpets are what I like!
what's pikelets?
...When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible...
Small Pikeyswhat's pikelets?
Pikeys are what???Small Pikeys
...When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible...
They are "travelling" people - Here you go RaynaPikeys are what???
In Yorkshire we call Pikeys Didicoys!They are "travelling" people - Here you go Rayna
Crumpetswhat's pikelets?
oohhh...so that's the same????
...When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible...
In the UK most people call crumpets, "Pikelets"what's pikelets?
Do theyIn the UK most people call crumpets, "Pikelets"
To be truthful, it may be a middle class pronounciation, not that I'm middle classDo they
Hmm,Scones and crumpets are what I like!... used to be rather partial to a "bit of
crumpet", myself, albeit ... it OUGHT to be stressed that that was during the 17 years between my first wife's untimely demise and eventually meeting Myrna!
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