Timeline for PETA wants workers to “bring home the bagels”
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| Dec 9, 2018 at 17:47 | comment | added | David Robinson | @mitch And here in Scotland we don't use the word much but we used to crown our kings at Scone Palace and that rhymes with moon. | |
| Dec 9, 2018 at 17:05 | comment | added | David Robinson | @mitch It's not totally true that scone doesn't rhyme with stone in Britain. In many dialects it does, stereotypically in the north of England. It is perhaps the word where English people are most likely to criticize other English people's pronunciation! Oxford says In British English the two pronunciations traditionally have different regional and class associations, with the first pronunciation associated with the north of England and the northern working class, while the second is associated with the south and the middle class. | |
| Dec 9, 2018 at 2:26 | history | edited | Mitch | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
another typo? what the shit
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| Dec 8, 2018 at 19:54 | history | edited | Mitch | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
oops
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| Dec 7, 2018 at 19:22 | comment | added | DRF | @mitch Wow I had no idea. That is interesting. I don't think I've ever heard the gone pronunciation ever. Of course the meaning in the US will be quite different than in the UK. Much more sugar for the birds in the US. | |
| Dec 7, 2018 at 16:55 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Three votes for closure. I don't think it's totally POB, only the second one is and why is that necessarily bad anyway? All the answers here, original, and well-supported, prove that the question has value. | |
| Dec 7, 2018 at 16:07 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | How PETA ignored there's more than one way to skin a cat, is beyond the pale. | |
| Dec 7, 2018 at 16:02 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @Mitch Or indeed that feeding birds scones is more likely to have a negative than a positive impact on the bird. Scones are better than plain white bread, but still not food for birds. | |
| Dec 7, 2018 at 15:57 | comment | added | Mitch | Has nobody pointed out that 'scone' only rhymes with 'stone' in the US and Ireland? | |
| Dec 7, 2018 at 15:52 | comment | added | Mitch | 'take the flower by the thorns': the imagery is not working for me. It sounds more like the metaphor of 'to take you medicine' (implying that the medicine doesn't taste good but will help). | |
| Dec 7, 2018 at 15:49 | history | edited | Mitch | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
link syntax fixed
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| Dec 7, 2018 at 15:21 | history | answered | Mitch | CC BY-SA 4.0 |