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Stan Carey

"Scone": rhymes with bone, or with gone? I left a couple of comments. languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/

I once used the pronunciation of "scone" to illustrate a linguistic isogloss in my essay on Irish English dialect: irishtimes.com/culture/books/w

Excerpt from my essay on Irish English dialect: Picture a line across Ireland from Sligo through Leitrim and Cavan over to Louth. Below it, for most people, 'scone' rhymes with 'phone'; above it, with 'gone'. Near the line, usage is more mixed. The line is an isogloss, like a weather-map isobar but showing where a linguistic feature stops or changes. There's one along the old Iron Curtain: in what was West Germany a pancake is a 'Pfannkuchen'; east, it's an 'Eierkuchen' (egg cake). A bundle of isoglosses together marks a rough dialect boundary, but it's seldom tidy. Dialects bleed into one another, complicated by geography, politics, and human interaction.
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