Changing language?

[Diasi]

They differ because some yank called Webster produced a dictionary for them. It would have been fine but he couldn't spell.

You could well be right, I just posted what I'd read about it on some language blog way back.

I do know that the Yanks wonder why so many British places are named after their places. 

[Scrumpy]

 Our language can confuse even us.. I live near a village named LEIGH..
Strangers pronounce it  LEE.. We locals  LIE.

Different dialects in this country also a problem with me.. It can sound like a completely different language .. 

[Diasi]

Our language can confuse even us.. I live near a village named LEIGH..
Strangers pronounce it  LEE.. We locals  LIE.

Different dialects in this country also a problem with me.. It can sound like a completely different language ..

Tha not wrong theer lass.

[Raven]

It's the same near Perth, there's a village called Scone, pronounced Scoon and strangers say Scone like the cake. It gets a lot of visitors because of the palace and where the stone of destiny stood for the kings of Scotland.

[JBR]

Our language can confuse even us.. I live near a village named LEIGH..
Strangers pronounce it  LEE.. We locals  LIE.

Different dialects in this country also a problem with me.. It can sound like a completely different language ..

We Yorkies pronounce it correctly: "Lee".  
Lankies are a bit thick and they don't know how to speak properly!

[GrannyMac]

It's the same near Perth, there's a village called Scone, pronounced Scoon and strangers say Scone like the cake. It gets a lot of visitors because of the palace and where the stone of destiny stood for the kings of Scotland.

Aah, but how do they pronounce the cake?  I guess your version of scone, like mine, rhymes with gone, but most folk round here say it to rhyme with cone. 

[Ashy]

We Yorkies pronounce it correctly: "Lee". 
Lankies are a bit thick and they don't know how to speak properly!

That's LAY !

[JBR]

Aah, but how do they pronounce the cake?  I guess your version of scone, like mine, rhymes with gone, but most folk round here say it to rhyme with cone. 

Well I'm a Yorkie (in exile) and I've always pronounced it as 'sconn'.

[Raven]

Aah, but how do they pronounce the cake?  I guess your version of scone, like mine, rhymes with gone, but most folk round here say it to rhyme with cone. 

It depends on where they come from  I've heard a few different versions of it. Usually I know right away where they're talking about. 

[Scrumpy]

Aah, but how do they pronounce the cake?  I guess your version of scone, like mine, rhymes with gone, but most folk round here say it to rhyme with cone. 

Scon

[dextrous63]

Those without scones shouldn't throw stones.

[Alex]

Scone to rhyme with gone

[GrannyMac]

Thats a result! Nearly everyone here in Yorkshire says scone to rhyme with cone.

[Alex]

Thats a result! Nearly everyone here in Yorkshire says scone to rhyme with cone.

That's posh GM   

[JBR]

That's posh GM   

It is unnaturally posh, especially as the Yorkshire I knew was down to earth, call a spade a spade, and call a scone as sconn.

I can only assume that GrannyMac moves in the wrong sort of circles.  Harrogate, perhaps!