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Old 06-30-08, 05:18 AM   #1
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17. If you wish to enjoy the taste of a scone you must first learn how to properly pronounce it. The word scone rhymes with gone, not with stone.

My maternal grandmother used to get so upset when we mispronounced it.
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Old 06-30-08, 06:53 AM   #2
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Hahahahaha
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Old 06-30-08, 09:55 AM   #3
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It gets posted every now and then. Last time was only a few months ago. Still funny though.

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17. If you wish to enjoy the taste of a scone you must first learn how to properly pronounce it. The word scone rhymes with gone, not with stone.

My maternal grandmother used to get so upset when we mispronounced it.
I never knew that. Still, it's hardly going to change now. One more language division between us.
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Old 06-30-08, 10:28 AM   #4
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America under our rule. :hmm:

Nah, I just can not see it.
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Old 06-30-08, 10:37 AM   #5
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ROFL, at number 12. That is only funny because we got new helmets in during spring practice that have the same interiors of Paratrooper Jump Helmets.
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Old 06-30-08, 10:57 AM   #6
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16 reasons why ditching Parliament and crazy King George was a good thing IMO.

Can you imagine life under royal government? Extra vowels littering the literary countryside. Being constantly corrected on the proper pronunciation of words like "scone" (which BTW was stolen from the Dutch word "schoonbrood") when "biscuit" does the job just fine. I'm surprised it took as long as it did to send the Lobsterbacks packing.

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Found it!

In all of its entirety...
http://forum.sturmovik.de/index.php?...2515#msg302515

Number 9: That's the point of French fries! TOTAL DEVIATION!
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Old 06-30-08, 12:19 PM   #8
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Yea but ironically it was with French support you beat us.
BTW sonce and biscuit are two different things.
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Old 06-30-08, 10:16 PM   #9
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16 reasons why ditching Parliament and crazy King George was a good thing IMO.
Good point.

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Being constantly corrected on the proper pronunciation of words like "scone" (which BTW was stolen from the Dutch word "schoonbrood") when "biscuit" does the job just fine.
And then there's the insidious French encroachment. When I was a kid we had these things called crescent rolls, because they were shaped like crescents. Now all I can ever find is something called 'croissants'.
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Old 06-30-08, 10:32 PM   #10
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Steve, don't worry about it too much, put a complaint in a letter to the editor of your local paper, and the french will run from all claims of "croissants" within a week!

Edit, when the hell did i hit a thousand posts?? I don't remember that
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