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Scone - bone is an interesting one.

The pronunciation of scone does not go along the lines of class/wealth or anything else.

Where I was brought up scone rhymed with bone, scone rhyming with upon was considered to be a bit pretentious.

Here in Edinburgh my children tell me that scone rhymes with upon and scone rhyming with bone is a bit "posh".

That's interesting. My aunt in Scotland says the complete opposite! Scone (pronounced 'scon') is the posh way (and proper way, in her opinion) and scone (rhyming with bone) the more common.

There is aswell, the Palace of Scone in Scotland which is pronounced 'scoon'. Just to confuse matters .

While we're on the subject of words of this nature what about all the different ways that you can pronounce words that end in 'ough'? I believe there are nine different ways and you can form a coherent sentence using an example of each. I'll try to remember it for a later posting.