"Does your pronunciation of 'scone' (a variety of bun) rhyme with 'gone' or 'stone' or 'boon'?" To my ears, 'gone' has a longer vowel sound than the similar pronunciation of 'scone', which

To my ears, 'gone' has a longer vowel sound than ... to rhyme with 'stone'. I've never heard it pronounced scoon. I seem to remember that "scoon" is the proper pronunciation of the Scottish place-name

"Does your pronunciation of 'scone' (a variety of bun) rhyme with 'gone' or 'stone' or 'boon'?" To my ears, 'gone' has a longer vowel sound than the similar pronunciation of 'scone', which

"Does your pronunciation of 'scone' (a variety of bun) rhyme with 'gone' or 'stone' or 'boon'?" To my ears, 'gone' has a longer vowel sound than the similar pronunciation of 'scone', which

Dear forum-ers, I was born in the UK and acquired the english language as a joint first language with arabic. My family moved back to our country when I was still a child, and although I always maintained a very high standard of spoken, and

According to John Wells at University College London: "I do not understand the proposed distinction between Mainstream RP and Contemporary RP (unless the writer thinks, wrongly, that ‘contemporary’ means ‘young’)." You can read more of what

Hi, You are taking the wrong approach in counting consonants and vowels. eg phone and fox both have one syllable, despite the double consonants 'ph'. Consider the sound, not the letters. the word "television", which has a similar

It's easy, count the number of vowels in a word (but pronunciation is what counts, not writing!) and that's the number of its syllables.

Hello Th., Welcome to the forums. I would pronounced Ryden as "Rye" (rhymes with "dye" or "high") "din" with the vowel quite minimized, and the stress on the first syllable. (At least, until he told me it was pronounced differently.)

There’re phonic generalizations; there’re no hard-and-fast rules. There’ll always be exceptions. Syllabification is a very controversial and contentious subject. Unfortunately your final answer - I hate to admit - lies in any authoritative