[MK Chris]

Now this may shock you but (wait for it)





















I'm not a real smurf.

[S4B]

for what?

[foot-loose]

*laughs out loud*

[Yudster]

Did you? I merely squinted........

[S4B]

I'm confused! V easy to do today I seem to have lost my brain - if anyone sees it send it home please

[kendra k]

Scones are not biscuits either. Americans, pah.

it's not a scone. it's a buttermilk biscuit and they're amazing with lots of butter.

you guys are talking about cookies, yeah? i sorta hate cookies, it's weird. never really had one i like that's vegan.

[Nicola_Red]

They look exactly like what we call scones, and nothing like anything we would call a biscuit - I'm cynical, kendra.

I had some delicious vegan biscuits recently, ginger covered in plain chocolate, made by Duchy Originals, Prince Charles' company. Expensive, but worth it.

[foot-loose]

That is a scone! Unless its something that looks very like a scone but itsn't really.

And yes, they are nice with butter, but they aint biscuits!

[S4B]

Trust Americans to call Biscuits cookies and Scones biscuits what do you call cakes Kendra?

[MK Chris]

They can call them what they like, the most annoying people are the ones that call them scones (like 'own') rather than scone (like 'on').

[S4B]

with you there honey

[foot-loose]

They can call them what they like, the most annoying people are the ones that call them scones (like 'own') rather than scone (like 'on').

I've heard them called "scoons" as well

[DemonHorse]

They can call them what they like, the most annoying people are the ones that call them scones (like 'own') rather than scone (like 'on').

I've heard them called "scoons" as well

to me it is SCONE like 'own' because you don't pronounce CONE as con, and all scone is doing is sticking an s at the start.

[MK Chris]

I see your point, but 'gone' is spelt the same way and pronounced 'on'.

[S4B]

semantics, dialect and linguistics of any variety are some of my favourite topics - each to his own. Being welsh i say sospan instead of saucepan and tooth to me should sound like tuth which winds my mates up no end. However the bath and barth conversation can get me quite riled, just like garidge and gararge. I have no right to judge people's pronunciation because mine isn't perfect but whose is?

[kendra k]

scones, to me, tend to be sweet. biscuits (us) are not. they are savory.

most people here would say scone like cone, but americans also make tw@ rhyme with that, which is wrong.

[timp]

Heres one for you all grass (grars) or (gras)?

[MK Chris]

Grarse of course. Barth, darft, glarse, girarfe.

[Yudster]

Listen everyone - IT DEPENDS WHERE YOU COME FROM.
Ok?

[Zoot]

My parents lived in Gloucester for a while before I was born - this is the closest I can get to a reason why yes, I do know about Lardy Cake!

I live in Gloucester. I thought Lardy Cakes were known all around the UK.

[MK Chris]

I bought a lardy cake about a year ago, I'd not heard of it before then, but when the woman said the name of it I misheard her, I thought she said lager cake. No wonder I snapped it up!

Yudster, I know it does but it makes for interesting debate.

[Zoot]

This is an amazing Website, although a bit gross sometimes (Completely work safe - not that kind of gross...)

http://www.pimpthatsnack.com/projects.php

[Yudster]

Yudster, I know it does but it makes for interesting debate.

I know - and I am tempted to continue it by introducing some thoughts about the difference between regional speech and pronunciation and incorrect speech and pronunciation..........I must reseeeest!

[MK Chris]

Apparently some linguists estimate accents change every three to four miles in this country. I find that amazing.

[Yudster]

These people have their own secret agendas though. Cunning linguists.