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[liv]

A couple of good questions on my d-roll recently, so I am repeating them here in order to solicit more opinions. And because a nice discussion will distract me from doing all the pre-term admin I'm working on this week.

falena, who hangs out with a pretty international crowd, asked the classic scone question (discussion in the comments is worth reading if you enjoy that kind of phonology / dialect nerdery.) I can't resist the excuse for a pronunciation debate poll, so:

Poll #14284 the scone debate

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 46

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This tasty leavened cake is a scone.

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Rhymes with "gone"
21 (45.7%)

Rhymes with "stone"
14 (30.4%)

Not quite the same vowel as either, but closer to "gone"
7 (15.2%)

Not quite the same vowel as either, but closer to "stone"
2 (4.3%)

None of the above
2 (4.3%)

How will you eat it?

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With butter only
17 (40.5%)

With butter and jam
18 (42.9%)

With whipped cream and jam
10 (23.8%)

With clotted cream and jam
24 (57.1%)

Jam first, then cream!
11 (26.2%)

Cream first, then jam!
12 (28.6%)

With some other topping
5 (11.9%)

Give it to someone else who likes scones
4 (9.5%)

Cream tea ate my grandmother, you insensitive clod!
2 (4.8%)

Where did you come by your linguistic and culinary habits (feel free to expand in comments)?

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On a completely unrelated topic, ofearthandstars found some trans-positive music videos and is seeking more such music. I posted a related query to mix_tape and people have come up with some good stuff. Ideally I would like to winnow the list to select songs with a positive, supportive message, cos quite a lot of them are a little bit treating the genderqueer subject as a freak. Some of them are just old, I suspect dating from an era when categories like transvestite and transgender weren't as clearly delineated as today, but I'm not the one to decide whether that's offensive or acceptable for its time. I'm also not sure whether the whole repertoire of folk songs about girls who dress as boys in order to have adventures actually belongs in this general category, but I like songs like that anyway, so feel free to recommend some, even they end up in a different playlist. Anyway, more suggestions are welcome, and critiques of any of the song choices even more so.

If you do Spotify, here's what we've come up with so far. The list is still in progress so I'll probably be updating it as the discussion proceeds. In particular I haven't sorted it at all so there is a lot of jumping about between musical styles and no overall arc yet.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

Who eats scones with topping? They're perfectly tasty all by themselves. My friend Sarah has a recipe for scones with orange juice and cranberries in. NOM.

[liv]

Really good scones are so buttery on their own that I agree, it's not really worth putting topping on them. But lots of places sell mediocre scones which are dry and sawdusty and then the only way to make them enjoyable is to use them as a substrate for a big pile of jam and cream! Also cream tea is just one of those cultural traditions; sorry it has painful associations for you.

[alexseanchai]

True point.

:p I clicked that ticky because it's funny.

[liv]

The "insensitive clod" ticky is a very, very old joke. I sometimes sail a bit close to the wind by writing "gender binary killed my grandparent, you insensitive clod" if I'm asking questions to elicit differences between male and female experiences, but mostly it's for people to make jokes about taking offence at harmless things.