― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 14:06 (twenty years ago) link
Where: Rhythm Factory, 16-18 Whitechapel Road E1. 020 7375 2771 When: 1 May, 10pm-3amCash: £4
― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 14:12 (twenty years ago) link
― chris (chris), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 14:13 (twenty years ago) link
― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 14:33 (twenty years ago) link
glars go
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 15:37 (twenty years ago) link
Glahz-go (slightly accentuated first syllable), though I used to say Glas-go until not long after I moved there.
but then I veer between pronouncing my own name Ail-sa and Ail-za (accent on first syllable) so what would I know.
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Daniel (dancity), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:55 (twenty years ago) link
― thuddd (thuddd), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 21:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 10:59 (twenty years ago) link
i made some scones this weekend. in the preamble to the recipe it said to pronounce this word "skawn" which rhymes with gone. pretty much everyone i've said this in front of corrected me to say (rhymes with bone).
stupid amurkins
― in the end they're just fucked up animals wailing about their pain (jdchurchill), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Q: What is the fastest cake in the world?
A: S'gone! (scone)
― salsa sharkshavin (salsa shark), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link
how can "skawn" rhyme with "gone"?
― tomofthenest, Monday, 5 April 2010 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Rhymes for me, I just say scone (cone).
― Il suffit de ne pas l'envier (Michael White), Monday, 5 April 2010 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
I used to say scone as in gone and would defend that to the death. But inexplicably since moving to the US I have started calling them scooones as in bones. I have some blueberry ones sitting on my counter actually :D
― Not the real Village People, Monday, 5 April 2010 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Presumably it was an American recipe. They don't have the /ɒ/ sound that British English uses in 'gone'.
― Home Taping Is Killing Muzak (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 5 April 2010 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I will never call a risotto a ris-OH-to though. NEVER!
scone to rhyme with on. glasgow as either glez gah or glaz go.
that is how you pronounce risotto though?
― 404s & Heartbreak (jim in glasgow), Monday, 5 April 2010 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
??
― Il suffit de ne pas l'envier (Michael White), Monday, 5 April 2010 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I say /skəʊn/ (like 'bone') rather than /skɒn/ (like 'gone'), but I'm in the minority.
― Home Taping Is Killing Muzak (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 5 April 2010 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
riz-otto as in lotto = okriz-oh!-to as in Kyoto = dud
― Not the real Village People, Monday, 5 April 2010 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
btw did you know that you are insane, because no one on Earth pronounces "risotto" so it rhymes with "lotto" unless they are mispronouncing "lotto"
― Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Monday, 5 April 2010 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Er...I've never met anyone who *doesn't* pronounce 'risotto' to rhyme with 'lotto'.
― Home Taping Is Killing Muzak (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 5 April 2010 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link
lotto rhymes with risotto. you're the crazy one. in a nice way.
― tomofthenest, Monday, 5 April 2010 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Ris-OH!-to is the American way.
― Ask foreigners and they will tell you the gospel comes from America. (Laurel), Monday, 5 April 2010 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Also potentially a solid gold advertising campaign.
OH! to rhyme with "Joe"?
― tomofthenest, Monday, 5 April 2010 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Yep.
― Ask foreigners and they will tell you the gospel comes from America. (Laurel), Monday, 5 April 2010 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
it even has a nasty diphthong to make it even more painful -- /ow/
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Monday, 5 April 2010 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
rih-SOHT-ow!
― Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Monday, 5 April 2010 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Also of interest, although probably not much: there's a cafe on Rivington called Bruscheteria that has the pronunciation written parenthetically underneath, pointing out that the "ch" is a hard "k". Because we say it soft, like the ch- in "chef".
― Ask foreigners and they will tell you the gospel comes from America. (Laurel), Monday, 5 April 2010 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
As long as we're talking Italian cuisine: broo-SHET-ta or broo-SKET-ta? (I say the latter, but I suspect the former is more common in these parts.)
― jam master (jaymc), Monday, 5 April 2010 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
OMG xpost!
I've just realised why my scone pronunciation changed - there is a brand here called 'Sconehenge' (lol) which forces you into the wrong pronunciation. I think I just affected a Bristolian accent to mock the name sconehenge and it stuck.
― Not the real Village People, Monday, 5 April 2010 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
scone rhymes with own
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 15:37 (6 years ago)
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 5 April 2010 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
scpne
― Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Monday, 5 April 2010 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
oven hacking
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 5 April 2010 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
rizzo D'oh!i was just doing the 8 year old thing of "no-it-isn't, yes-it-is" X like 100 over the skawn vs scone(henge)
― in the end they're just fucked up animals wailing about their pain (jdchurchill), Monday, 5 April 2010 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
with a coworker, who's a punk know-it-all
As long as we're talking Italian cuisine: broo-SHET-ta or broo-SKET-ta? (I say the latter, but I suspect the former is more common in these parts.)― jam master (jaymc), Monday, 5 April 2010 22:23 (10 minutes ago) Bookmark
― jam master (jaymc), Monday, 5 April 2010 22:23 (10 minutes ago) Bookmark
I think I say something clumsily between the two, like broo-shket-ta.
the other one I get wrong is chorizo - I'm pretty sure it should be chor-EE-tho, but that's never what I end up saying.
― tomofthenest, Monday, 5 April 2010 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
I get by with treating the z like it's two zzs, like in pizza and Rizzoli. Which is almost certainly wrong but it feels so right.
― Ask foreigners and they will tell you the gospel comes from America. (Laurel), Monday, 5 April 2010 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, I'm sure I've called it Ko-reet-zo before!
and to answer the thread:
Scone like gone and John, Glaz-go ( short a like "cat", go like "Joe")
― tomofthenest, Monday, 5 April 2010 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
S'gone, Ris-OTT-oh, chor-EE-tzo.
Chorizo pizza - chorizza.
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Monday, 5 April 2010 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link
trying to get out of the 'glaaaaahzgow' habit.
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Monday, 5 April 2010 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
chor-EE-tho
is right. i speak spanish after the latin american fashion and so pronounce it chor-EE-so.
― 404s & Heartbreak (jim in glasgow), Monday, 5 April 2010 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I have been determinedly pronouncing "chorizo" as chor-eeth-o and usually get an Italian-esque pronunciation back, e.g. "koreetzo".
Pronouncing "risotto" like the t isn't doubled is confusing to me, but for all I know that's the Italian way too.
― falling while carrying an owl (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 5 April 2010 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Broosketta
― Il suffit de ne pas l'envier (Michael White), Monday, 5 April 2010 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
'cho-' wouldn't be pronounced 'ko-' in Italian (or Spanish).
It isn't.
― Home Taping Is Killing Muzak (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 5 April 2010 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
'cho-' wouldn't be pronounced 'ko-' in Italian
Actually, that's not quite right. What I meant is a 'ko' sound would be spelt 'co' in Italian and a 'cho' sound would be spelt 'cio'. I don't think the spelling 'cho' would exist, because there's no reason for the 'h' to be there.
― Home Taping Is Killing Muzak (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 5 April 2010 22:05 (fourteen years ago) link
?? Double tts are pronounced in Italian and 'cho' is ko not tcho.
― Il suffit de ne pas l'envier (Michael White), Monday, 5 April 2010 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Michael, my "it isn't" referred to the second part of the sentence (i.e. it isn't the Italian way to pronounce 'risotto' like 'Kyoto').
― Home Taping Is Killing Muzak (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 5 April 2010 22:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i've always pronounced it Rees (rhyming with the english word peas) - ot (rhyming with the english word got) - toe (as in pronounced like the english word toe).
― 404s & Heartbreak (jim in glasgow), Monday, 5 April 2010 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I say "chuh-REE-zo."
― jam master (jaymc), Monday, 5 April 2010 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Would never occur to me to pronounce it with a Spanish accent, but then I'm more likely to encounter Mexican chorizo here than Spanish chorizo.
― jam master (jaymc), Monday, 5 April 2010 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
There are three ways of pronouncing scone, there's skune (as in tune) (sorry, don't know where to put symbols)
.....
― nakhchivan, Monday, 5 April 2010 22:40 (fourteen years ago) link
... skoon not skune for the town of Scone, of course. Meanwhile...
https://mk0brilliantmaptxoqs.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/scone-map.png
― I'm Going to Bring a Watermelon to Mark Grout Tonight (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 10:44 (three years ago) link
I find it fascinating how the names of cities and countries are sometimes pronounced differently in the UK & US and wonder why.
A lot of pronunciations/word usages we in the UK consider American are in fact the way we used to say the words here - like saying "dew" as "doo" rather than the same as "due" or not putting a 'y' sound in Tuesday.
But did British people used to pronounce the last half of "Moscow" like the bovine animal and switch to "co" later? It's not like the Russian name Moskva influenced it one way or another!
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 11:12 (three years ago) link
They still do in Norfolk and the West Country don't they?
― I'm Going to Bring a Watermelon to Mark Grout Tonight (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 11:26 (three years ago) link
I never noticed it when I lived in Bristol, though I was there as a student not a working person so didn't hear as many locals as, say, Dog Latin. Maybe they do in Somerset, Devon, Cornwall?
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 11:30 (three years ago) link
In Norfolk there seems to be a lot of 'oo' going on, Funeral is Fooneral
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 11:34 (three years ago) link
Yes, they're even more enthusiastic about than Americans.
― I'm Going to Bring a Watermelon to Mark Grout Tonight (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 11:35 (three years ago) link
what's with the anomalous Essex / NE London scone/cone rhyming belt ?
where did the UK "los angeleez" pronunciation come from, i've never heard it from an american? and I know USers pronounce New Orleans a few different ways but most seem to emphasise the second syllable rather than the third like brits almost always do
in london there are the traditional pronunications of marylebone and holborn which seem to be used less these days, but probably varies by age, class, area of origin
― Towards a Britain-Free Planet (Left), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 11:47 (three years ago) link
which came first "noo" or "nyoo"?
"noo"
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 11:48 (three years ago) link
"nyoo" another london affectation like broad As and dropped Rs? or something else
― Towards a Britain-Free Planet (Left), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 11:49 (three years ago) link
That reminds me, I was watching Stephen Sackur interviewing Douglas Stuart about his novel, "Shuggie Bain", a few days ago and Sackur kept pronouncing Shuggie as Shoogie - since when was -ugg pronounced as -oog in English? Now, the author, who you would imagine would know how to pronounce the name of his own novel, was obviously mentioning the title pretty often, and yet Sackur ploughed on regardless. I just thought, posh arrogant BBC wanker who thinks he knows best, which probably says more about me than Stephen Sackur, but it was bugging - sorry, booging - me so much that I found myself saying "Shuggie... Shuggie... SHUGGIE!" out loud, through gritted teeth, each time he said it.
― I'm Going to Bring a Watermelon to Mark Grout Tonight (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 12:25 (three years ago) link
... hold on, is he called Douglas Stuart? Isn't that the guy in the BMX Bandits?
― I'm Going to Bring a Watermelon to Mark Grout Tonight (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 12:26 (three years ago) link
... yes he is.
shoogie and doogie
― himpathy with the devil (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 17:46 (three years ago) link
Your man from the BMX Bandits is Duglas T Stewart.
[I can never leave it alone, Scone the place is Skoon. Glasgow is Glazzgo]
― hamicle, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 17:55 (three years ago) link