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Originally Posted by pdurrant
But is it scone or scone?
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I was brought up to think that [scone] was posher than [scon] - mostly because, being from up north, long vowels are generally posher than short vowels. However, when I got a bit posher myself I realised how wrong I'd been, [scon] is much posher. It's a bit like lavatory and toilet.