Is it scone ( gone ) or scone ( hone)

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

I move between the 2.

That map is way too fascinating

Gone- Surrey

Ooohhh ooohhh, i actually know some of these.

I once read that according to the book of etiquette, it's actually poor manners to say pardon, because pardon is the short ( lazy ) version of I beg your pardon so it's actually more polite to say What, if you're not going to say the whole I beg your pardon.

Disclaimer - this was in the 80's

Hone
Which agrees with the map as I'm from the East Midlands originally with parents from Dublin

Also ‘hone’ from Essex. I have quite a ‘posh’ accent (and don’t live in Essex anymore) and most people where I live now say scone like gone, and think I am being all posh saying scone like hone, and I’m like ‘nope that’s just how you say it in Essex’. And the map upthread agrees!

Cone / hone / bone in East Midlands

Although my DH and daughter says it to rhyme with gone. Aged 2, she sat in a National Trust cafe whacking a scone with a spoon, shouting bang and looking around for approval... turned out she thought the Cillit Bang advert was "bang on a dirty scone" 😅

Scone as in gone. Butter, jam, then cream. I'm SE Home Counties.

Hone here in Essex. Cream on first (must be clotted cream…) then strawberry jam. It looks far more delicious this way round.

It can't be the fastest cake in the world if you're rhyming it with bone.

Cone is right there in the word.

I’m West Yorkshire and for me it’s gone. Don’t think it’s area related though as some of my work colleagues say scone as in bone. Definitely jam before cream.

Gone. NE Scotland

Scone. Cone. Like a traffic cone. Its right there in the word and this is the hill I will die on. (South West)

It rhymes with gone.

The cone-rhyming pronunciation is (or was originally) an affectation - as in the John Betjeman poem:

Milk and then just as it comes dear?
I'm afraid the preserves full of stones;
Beg pardon, I'm soiling the doilies
With afternoon tea-cakes and scones.

gone
south east

Everyone around me says "cone". I think we all know "gone", but no one says it.

S+cone (as in traffic) = scone.

How do you pronounce stone?

Moonah ston 😂

Gone. I'm in wales but brought up in Oxfordshire and have a Scottish parent. Hate it said the other way, makes me cringe.

Scone as in gone. And it’s cream first because the cream takes the place of the butter as an emulsifier on the bread.

I’m a fervent opponent of capital punishment but will make an exception for those who pronounce it to rhyme with hone.

We don’t say alon, cron, dron, pron, so why should scone escape. I draw it out in my accent too - scowwwwne. It’s that pesky E on the end that’s to blame for all this. I’d be sconning if it wasn’t for him.

Rhymes with stone, and jam first. London

I seem to be horribly outnumbered, but shall make my argument anyway. Let's look at the phonetics;
Kids are taught that if there's an o in the middle and an e on the end then the o changes to oh, ie cone, stone, home.
But of course occasionally it doesn't, and it's pronounced o but for some weird reason there's a silent e on the end anyway, ie gone.
The scone/scon debate would be non existent if our language wasn't littered with rule exceptions...

Didn't read every post on the thread, apologies if someone has already made this point.

Ha, literally cross posted

Scone-hone, definitely; from Lancashire.

I'm a.gone. Dh is a cone. Both brought up in the same area.

Shouldn't it really be scooon, anyway? Because of the place?