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Ciara

Ditto:

'Why are you still on Bluesky too?'

'But did you *delete* your Twitter account?'

’You said you switched to Proton mail too, oh that’s bad, once someone at Proton said something’

It’s nice to see new neighbours move into the Fediverse. It feels unwelcoming to see people immediately interview them about the purity of their intentions. Or telling them You’re Doing It Wrong. They've just arrived on a journey away from Big Tech. Maybe they'd prefer to be offered a seat and a cup of tea.

Jim Daly 1d ago

@CiaraNi And maybe a nice biscuit or a scone.

@psneeze Someone would immediately tell them they pronounced Scone the wrong way.

@psneeze That someone would be me, if they pronounced it Skon, not scone-rhymes-with-Eoghan

Jim Daly 1d ago

@CiaraNi 100% it's Eoghan!

@psneeze Yes it is! I can't believe there are people who walk this earth saying Skon Skon Skon.

@CiaraNi I say skon. It's the correct way, a northern hill to die on.

MattChippytea 1d ago

@DavidBridger @CiaraNi there were few survivors of the scone/skon wars. #skonskonskon

#SconeRyhmesWithEoghan
#SconeNotSkon

@Wifiwits @DavidBridger This has happily reminded me of one of the happiest moments of my life, the moment when I learnt that the Scone of Stone in the Discworld is based on an actual real Stone of Scone in Scotland.

🐕1d ago

@CiaraNi @Wifiwits @DavidBridger often wondered if they pronounce it scone or scone in Scone.

@jbenjamint @CiaraNi @Wifiwits I believe they pronounce it skon.

Tim Crumpton 1d ago

@DavidBridger @jbenjamint @CiaraNi @Wifiwits I don't know how they pronounce scone in Scone, but I do know they pronounce Scone skoon

@DavidBridger @jbenjamint @Wifiwits

@timpootle That entire sentence makes sense to me, which it probably shouldn't.

Schroedinger's Possum 1d ago

@CiaraNi @timpootle @DavidBridger @jbenjamint @Wifiwits
:)

@timpootle @DavidBridger @jbenjamint @Wifiwits

@schroedingerspossum
Haha that thought struck me too. It's a very Fediversey thread, in the best way. As is your excellent meme, which made me laugh aloud.

David Nash 18h ago

@timpootle @DavidBridger @jbenjamint @CiaraNi @Wifiwits I have always been amused that the following sentence:

"I ate one scone at the Stone of Scone"

contains four occurrences of the letter sequence "one" that are often (in some accents, consistently) pronounced *completely differently*. It's not as bad as the situation with "ough", but it's pretty close.

@timpootle @DavidBridger @jbenjamint @Wifiwits

Ciara 18h ago

@dpnash That's excellent

David Nash 17h ago

@timpootle @DavidBridger @jbenjamint @CiaraNi @Wifiwits It gets worse. If you're willing to stretch things a bit,

"I am done eating one scone at the Stone of Scone"

could count as five, because "done" and "one" have the same vowel but the "o" in "one" includes a weird "w" sound at the beginning.

@timpootle @DavidBridger @jbenjamint @Wifiwits

Ciara 17h ago

@dpnash That is either much worse or much better, I can't quite decide

@DavidBridger @jbenjamint @Wifiwits I believe they pronounce it scone

@jbenjamint @Wifiwits @DavidBridger I wonder that too, now

@jbenjamint @CiaraNi @Wifiwits @DavidBridger

Mark Reid 1d ago

*taps mic*

Ahem…

SKWON

*runs, hides*

@jbenjamint @Wifiwits @DavidBridger

@mdreid Skwon! Well maybe if you're in the process of eating one, then with your mouth full that's what Scone sounds like

🐕1d ago

@CiaraNi @mdreid @jbenjamint @Wifiwits @DavidBridger Scone rhymes exactly with Doune (another very historic town just down the road).

Hope that helps.

@jbenjamint @CiaraNi @mdreid @Wifiwits Purrfecto!

@mdreid @Wifiwits @DavidBridger

@jbenjamint Doune. Skoon. Rhymes with loon.

Bodhipaksa 16h ago

@CiaraNi @jbenjamint @mdreid @Wifiwits @DavidBridger When I was a wee boy my dad told me we were going to Doune Castle*. I misheard it as Doom Castle and was very disappointed when he put me straight.

*They filmed some of Monty Python and the Holy Grail there.

PS. Scone is a Scots word and we say it skon, but if you guys want to sound silly that's absolutely fine 🙂

@jbenjamint @mdreid @Wifiwits @DavidBridger

Ciara 16h ago

@bodhipaksa Doom Castle - I would have been disappointed too.

"Scone is a Scots word and we say it skon, but if you guys want to sound silly that's absolutely fine" - oh no, that's a credible argument. I may have to revise my stance. Or just avoid it by switching to muffins from now on.

@jbenjamint @CiaraNi @Wifiwits @DavidBridger

Isocat 18h ago

The rhone, postponed, feels lonely on the scone.

@jbenjamint @Wifiwits @DavidBridger

Ciara 18h ago

@isocat Ha 🙂

Kevin Smith 10h ago

@CiaraNi @Wifiwits @DavidBridger I remember when It showed up in Thud (I think) and I was so glad I understood the reference, thanks purely to an episode of #HighlanderTheSeries

rob 21h ago

@Wifiwits @DavidBridger @CiaraNi most of the survivors were muffins and bagels, thus forever changing English tea habits.

Ciara 19h ago

@robparsons @Wifiwits @DavidBridger Winners write the history of wars

@robparsons @Wifiwits @DavidBridger @CiaraNi

David Nash 15h ago

Someday, given the dubious existence of the “cronut”, there is going to be a cross-breed between scones and doughnuts (or donuts, for us USAians).

Will it be spelled sconut or scoughnut? Will it rhyme with do(ugh)nut or sound more like “sonnet”? And don’t get me started on the Skoonuts the town of Scone will make.

rob 15h ago

@dpnash @Wifiwits @DavidBridger @CiaraNi Sonnet. It will have to be sonnet.

David Nash 15h ago

@robparsons @Wifiwits @DavidBridger @CiaraNi Excellent. “Scoughnut” it is, “ough” pronounced with the vowel in “cot” (which may be yet another freaking “ough” sound, if you pronounce “ought” or “bought” with the “or” vowel rather than the “cot” vowel).

David Nash 18h ago

@Wifiwits @DavidBridger @CiaraNi Which "skon" do you mean? In the IPA, /skon/ is something that sounds like scone, rather than one that sounds like skon. Ok, to be clearer, something that sounds like tone, rather than something that sounds like gone.

#SconeRyhmesWithEoghan
#SconeNotSkon

@DavidBridger See, this is why you had to leave the EU. We can't be having people wander round the Union saying Skon.

(I'm pretending not to remember that friends in Cork say Skon too.)

@CiaraNi The Irish half of my ancestors lived in Cork, so I'm doubly skonning.

@DavidBridger Well that explains it, that's where you have it from so. They just have to be different down there in Cork, they can't get over not being the capital

@CiaraNi The other half of my crowd are mainly from Glasgow which is the capital of Scotland, and Liverpool which is the capital of Liverpool. Everyone of them was and is socialist and right about things that matter. Like skons.

@DavidBridger Haha, well this almost but not quite convinces me that Skon is a perfectly cromulent pronunciation.

@CiaraNi Perfectly so, I'd say.