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DeeGee Jun 2012 1:12pm, 19 Jun 2012 12,114 posts	Quote Pin DeeGee We're having an argument at work over the correct pronunciation of this word. I (Kent Weald) pronounce it to rhyme with gone Colleagues 1 and 2 (Lincolnshire Wolds) maintain that it rhymes with cone. Either A) which one's right, or B) how do you say it and in your accent? I'll add a poll...
DeeGee Jun 2012 1:13pm, 19 Jun 2012 12,115 posts	Quote Pin DeeGee http://www.fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=3084
Pestomum Jun 2012 1:14pm, 19 Jun 2012 619 posts	Quote Pin Pestomum cairnomohr.homestead.com best scones ever
plodding hippo Jun 2012 1:14pm, 19 Jun 2012 42,898 posts	Quote Pin plodding hippo Im with you dee gee (form Yorkshire originally)
sprouty76 Jun 2012 1:14pm, 19 Jun 2012 2,983 posts	Quote Pin sprouty76 People round my way would (Manchester) say it as rhyming with gone, but I've always said it the other way.
JenL Jun 2012 1:14pm, 19 Jun 2012 21,944 posts	Quote Pin JenL It rhymes with gone and swan. But there is no absolute correct pronunciation just as there is no perfect accent.
Nick Cook Jun 2012 1:15pm, 19 Jun 2012 9,287 posts	Quote Pin Nick Cook s + cone
DeeGee Jun 2012 1:27pm, 19 Jun 2012 12,116 posts	Quote Pin DeeGee Tell you what, if there was a Fetcheveryone for folk interested in accent and dialect in Britain, I'd be all over it like a powerful moss...
DeeGee Jun 2012 1:29pm, 19 Jun 2012 12,117 posts	Quote Pin DeeGee I'm sure my mother (Watford) says it to rhyme with swan, so it's not a north-south thing.
JohnnyO Jun 2012 1:31pm, 19 Jun 2012 13,223 posts	Quote Pin JohnnyO This is just about the only issue I am prepared to fight over. S(gone).