How do you pronounce “scones”?

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Daft I know but interested since my friend and I realised we were pronouncing scone or scones differently. I was calling them “scons “ and she “scones”. Is there a correct way?

Scone with a long /oe/ sound.

It's Skon. 96% of people in Scotland say it that way and seeing as we invented them that makes us right
Awaiting someone to turn up and declare ‘Actually they were invented in China’ (or somewhere) 🧐😂

Scone rhymes with phone.

Unless someone says scon first and I don't want to get into a discussion about. I'll let them lead.

SCON.

I pronounce it correctly.

Scone to rhyme with gone. And jam first before anyone else suggests any other kind of abomination!

*runs away ..

I have it on very good authority that H.M. Queen pronounces scone like skon.

She should know, the language is named after her...

Surely there isn't a correct way, either is fine.

Scone rhymes with stone.

Now I’ve read the word scone too many times and it has lost all meaning.

I say scone to rhyme with cone. I also say iyther not eether....

And I don't believe there is a correct pronunciation, it just depends where you're from.

To rhyme with bones, stones and moans. Scone rhyming with 'gone' sounds irritatingly faux-genteel to me, as though it's being said by the kind of person who says 'Shall I be mother?' while pouring tea and crooks their little finger while they drink it.

The only good thing about the 'rhymes with gone' pronunciation is that it allows your children to make annoying Christmas cracker type jokes about 'What's the world's fastest cake?'

”Scone rhyming with 'gone' sounds irritatingly faux-genteel to me, as though it's being said by the kind of person who says 'Shall I be mother?' while pouring tea and crooks their little finger while they drink it”

I would say that applies completely the other way round. I would feel as though I was trying to be posh if I pronounced it to rhyme with cone!

I can no longer remember what would once have come naturally to me because I've been asked too many times and I'm now too self-conscious about it.

In Ireland Scone to rhyme with gone is the smart/posher way to say it but apparently the reverse is true in the UK

To rhyme with cones. It is a regional spoken variation though so it doesn't overly fuss me.

Much like the word bath.

@gingernaut I like your style
I take others' lead on this too because I have had the phone gone conversation too many times and I just want to eat it not talk about it!

Scones like stones. The other way is wrong.

It’s the 's' that makes a difference. I can’t think of an 'one' word that ends in 's' but rhymes with gone. So the plural, 'scones' rhymes with:

Phones
Bones
Hones
Etc.

Therefore (or me) scone rhymes with the above as well. Happy to be proven wrong.

It’s immaterial, anyway, because the pronunciation is different depending where you come from and both are equally correct.

Hmmm, DH and I may need to rethink our daydream tearoom name 'Game of Scones'...

Hmmm, DH and I may need to rethink our daydream tearoom name 'Game of Scones'...

It will only work if you allow people to fight about the pronunciation among the mismatched china, armed with cake forks and protective doilies.

Scone (stone)