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Clee62 Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Scone

Hi,
today i just heard people say scone whey they are going for breakfast. Makes me wonder if it is true that scone should be pronounced as "Scone" rather than "S-Cone"? Is it usually true with words beginning in sc-? How about "skunk"? So it should be "Skunk" instead of "S-Kunk"? The same applies to "scar" right? We don't say "S-Car"? There is slight sound change. I think the stress falls on the s. Does it apply to other consonants, like prefixes st as in stop and sm as in smog?

Thanks,
  

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, making the "s" a separate syllable: escone, escar, Espain, estar for scone, scar, Spain, and star , for example. CJ

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I'm not sure what phenomenon you're talking about, but if your native language is Spanish, you may have trouble with initial sp, st, sk, etc., making the "s" a separate syllable: escone, escar, Espain, estar for scone, scar, Spain, and star, for example.

CJ
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I can't give you any better a suggestion than what CJ has offered. Can you enlighten us further? A native speaker would never add "es" to the words you have indicated.
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Hi,

What i mean is somehow, when we put s in front of the words mentioned above. The original consonant sounds less noticeable than when without the s.
For example,

Cone has k sound and Scone seems to make a g sound.
Car has a k sound and Scar seems to have this g sound as well. Do you agree?Could you tell me why?

Thanks,
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I think that this may be somewhat akin to what linguists call 'assimilation', where a consonant takes on characteristics of a following consant. [Income: the total sound may be closer to ing-come because of the /k/following the /n/.] Here, because there is a vowel (voiced, of course) following the /k/sound in 'scar', we may tend to voice the 'c', making it so
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clee62Cone has k sound and Scone seems to make a g sound.
Car has a k sound and Scar seems to have this g sound as well.
Your native language is likely to be Chinese, or at least some Asian language. This has to do with aspiration. I'll try to find a reference to another of my posts that explains this. Back later.

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