> > (It's actually a regional thing. The scots use the short "o". > As you move down the isles the long "o" becomes more > predominant. By the time you get to Nottingham, where my wife > was raised, almost everybody used the long "o". But as you > move even further south the short form reappears.) >
In Scotlandshire it's pronounced 'scoon'. As in the Stonn of Scoon: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_of_Scone> When they discovered that we'd taken it to London for safe keeping they all ran around shouting "Och! The Stonn of Scoon's gann!". They suffer from irritable vowel syndrome. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
