🔴 🇬🇧 The scone pronunciation map of Britain

…a recent YouGov study of more than 54,000 Britons finding that 51% say they pronounce the word to rhyme with ‘gone’ but 45% saying they pronounce it to rhyme with ‘bone’.

🔗 yougov.co.uk/society/articles/

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@bibliolater @linguistics I wonder if this correlates with the pronunciation of “shone” /ʃɑn/ (Sean) or /ʃoʊn/ (shown)

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