Is it scone ( gone ) or scone ( hone)

[Brunocatmon]

What do you say and where in the world are you?

I move between the 2.

There's a map for that!

say it however you like. Cream before jam.

It is a scone(cone) until you eat it, then it's soon!!

Gone. West Midlands.

Scone=hone.
East Anglia. DM was from the Southeast. Solid peasant stock in all directions.

DH is posher than me. Scone=gone.

ETA, cream first!

Gone - Scotland

whoops typo
Scone til you eat it then it's skon

Gone. SE England but Scottish a parent. Couldn't care less which way the jam and cream go.

Gone!

That map is interesting - I say it to rhyme with hone (Midlands) but I didn't realise so many of the country said it the other way. Thought it was just posh southerners and certain parts of North Yorkshire that said it that way.

Gone - NZ

Hone - Scone for Me, only because I like the sound of it more than Gone - Sone! Cornwall.

Hone for me (Sheffield)

Derbyshire and rhyming with hone..

That's exactly what I thought too!

Gone

S England

Bone is profoundly wrong.

Edit -just as I posted that I realised I couldn’t be married to someone who used the bone pronunciation. I really couldn’t.

Gone for me

Sorry north west

Gone. Cambs. Surprised there at the map, I thought it was a posh (Hone) common (Gone) divide. Sc-hone always sounded a bit pretentious to me.

Scone rhyming with hone. South Yorkshire.

I'm in Ireland and pronounce it to rhyme with gone because I've got British parents and that's what it was growing up. Pretty much everyone around me rhymes it with bone though except my kids who I have indoctrinated.

SW and scone to rhyme with gone. I say cream first and then more cream on top. Lose the jam.

Gone. Cream first (not a Devon/Cornwall thing, just that you wouldn’t put Jam on toast before butter, and I don’t see it as a cake, so for it to be entirely topped with cream feels wrong) London.

I (US resident at the time, Scottish parents) once tried to explain this to some American academics doing a production of Macbeth in America in the 1990s. They were all middle-aged and I was about 18, helping with costumes. They were v pleased with themselves for knowing that Scottish people pronounce scone like ‘gone’ instead of ‘hone’.

They flat-out didn’t believe me about Scone, the place name, being pronounced differently again. I think they thought I was making some kind of artificial pedantic distinction for cred rather than neutrally passing on info. One of them was like, ‘Isn’t that just because of the accent?’

So they said it like ‘see me crowned at scone’ in the performance 😐

Yup!

And broccoli ends with an eeee not an iiii

And chorizo ends with “itho” not “itzo”