For those who don’t know:
Texts from iPhone to iPhone appear as blue bubbles, while texts from Android users appear as green.
For many in the US who still use SMS to communicate, the blue/green bubble divide is a huge source of social conflict.
What’s your version of “If everyone knew this was a thing in my country, they’d think it was silly”?
Scone / scone.
Care to elaborate for non-British/Irish people?
Scone should be pronounced scone and not scone.
In some parts of the country, it’s pronounced to rhyme with cone, and in other parts it’s pronounced to rhyme with gone. That would be simple but there is another orthogonal dimension which is a demographic one (usually self-perceived class) which also influences the pronunciation.
It is, consequently, almost impossible to guess how any given person you meet might pronounce the word. And it is also something which, while seeming incredibly trivial, people here feel very strongly about.
I, of course, pronounce it correctly: scone.
That’s weird, everyone knows scone rhymes with spoon.
Wow, this is so quaint! I totally love this, thank you for explaining.
And I will now make sure to use the correct pronunciation during my next visit to the Isles (hopefully next year…)!
Just make sure you know which order to put your jam and clotted cream (or clotted cream and jam) on your scone before you come!
Does it matter if I put milk in earl grey or lemon?
I don’t really drink tea.
Oh no, this is getting increasingly complicated… from a combinatorical perspective alone I now already see the potential of mortally insulting 3/4 of the people I will be meeting… 😯