Is it scone ( gone ) or scone ( hone)

[Brunocatmon]

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

I move between the 2.

So, so wrong.

Cream is to be lavishly dolloped not mistreated by being spread and hidden under jam.

Gone.
Jam first.

I'm from the South East (home counties).

Science is on my side!

I'm loving the justifications based on the pronunciation of other words, as if English abides by its own rules

What about through, thorough, though, trough, bough, enough? And scoughn, pronounced with the same vowel sound as though? 😉

@jellyfishperiwinkleyou are so right. I can’t understand the ‘cream as a substitute for butter’ people at ALL. I’m a butter, then jam, then cream person. Not even remotely sorry.

ScHONE

Gone. Northern Ireland

Hone (Devon born, now trying to convert the population of Yorkshire who, inexplicably, all say gone).
Jam first. Oh, butter first, then jam, then cream.

Yes but those are not as similar as cone, stone and scone - there is a clear precedent for pronunciation there.

And if the scones are gone, or there is only one left, call the Scones Hotline 🙂

What about love, move and grove then?

Doesn’t matter how similar words look, pronunciation may vary due to etymology, historic use, adoption from other languages and other factors.

And it’s scone to rhyme with GONE!
And butter, then jam then cream, thanks.

It’s a class rather than a regional indicator. Rhyming with gone=posh. Rhyming with bone= not posh.

Rhyming with gone=posh 😂😂😂😂

For those of us who grew up in er, very modest backgrounds in Scotland this is quite funny!

Yes but what I mean is that similar words are not always a "clear precedent" in English.

What about "done"? 🤔

Hone- Ireland!

Apologies! I should have said that rhyming with bone is never posh. I was trying to be tactful🤣

I'm in Perthshire and it rhymes with gone

i live near the village and palace though. They are definitely ScOOn

Scone = gone and cream must be clotted and goes on first.
South West.

I’ve always lived in the SE and growing up (and until recently) it was always scone to rhyme with gone but for some bizarre reason, I’ve started rhyming it with hone! What’s that all about???!!!
Oh and someone once told me, they’d heard rhyming with gone is posher 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’ve had another think re: the “posh” way!

Scone-to-rhyme-with-gone is definitely NOT posh in Scotland, NI, and parts of England where this pronunciation is a well established part of the vernacular, but perhaps in the areas of England where it’s more of a grey area, it may be considered “posh”?

It's (or was originally) only "posh" in an affected way though, ie people started saying it to rhyme with stone because they thought it would make them sound posher (I'm not suggesting that that's what people think now if they have always pronounced it that way btw!). See the John Betjeman poem "how to get on in society" that gently pokes fun of various "non-U" words and expressions - including "scones" rhyming with "stones".

I think it's fascinating how obsessed as a nation we are with this sort of thing!

Hone, I live in the west of Ireland.

I'm Irish and for me scone=gone is for loaf of soda bread, whereas Scone=hone is for the small butter, jam and cream delicacies.

Is anyone else planning on making scones this weekend because of this thread? 😂😋

See the John Betjeman poem "how to get on in society" that gently pokes fun of various "non-U" words and expressions - including "scones" rhyming with "stones"

Well that fits. I wouldn't have the slightest claim to be U and am definitely from the dreadful aspiring lower classes.

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