{"id":35535,"date":"2018-08-12T01:19:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T01:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=35535"},"modified":"2018-08-12T01:19:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T01:19:46","slug":"is-scone-pronounced-scon-or-scone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/is-scone-pronounced-scon-or-scone\/","title":{"rendered":"Is scone pronounced scON or scONE?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tutoring English, pronunciations can be interesting. The tutor checks two different ones for scone.<\/h2>\n<p>As a kid, I heard scone pronounced <em>scon<\/em>; out west, I more often here s<em>cone<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, both pronunciations are correct.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Barber, Katherine, et al (editors). <em>Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English<\/em>. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2005.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, pronunciations can be interesting. The tutor checks two different ones for scone. As a kid, I heard scone pronounced scon; out west, I more often here scone. Apparently, both pronunciations are correct. Source: Barber, Katherine, et al (editors). &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/is-scone-pronounced-scon-or-scone\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is scone pronounced scON or scONE?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35538,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35535\/revisions\/35538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}