Scone or scon(e) and where are you from?

[FlatteredFool]

Scone to rhyme with cone. It's got a magic e making the o elongated. I'm in the North West with Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, and Irish roots.

I don't eat mine with cream. Clotted cream just sounds like some kind of STI affliction. Blood clots, cream shouldn't. However, if I did eat any kind of cream then the cream would go on first in place of butter. How do you eat yours?

And lastly, what is the best flavour scone? Mine is cherry followed by sultana but I've not experimented beyond that.

Let the bun scone fight begin!

I'm from Devon say scone, dh from London says scon. I eat mine the Cornish way though as I think it's easier to put cream on jam than jam on cream. I'm not that big on scones generally though anyway.

Scon. West of Scotland.
I put jam on first then a wee dollop of clotted cream on top. Much easier that way.

I'm from the South East and say scon to rhyme with shone. English has far too many exceptions to its rules to claim one as a definitive reason for pronouncing a word one way or another.

The standard clotted cream (awesome) with raspberry jam - in that order - is the original and best.

Cheese scones too, with cream cheese and tomato chutney.

Scone to rhyme with phone.S Yorkshire

Scone to rhyme with cone. It's got a magic e making the o elongated.

What, like in 'gone'? Or maybe 'done' or 'none' - which have a different vowel sound but no magic e elongation either?

I'm from the south (Home Counties)and say scone to rhyme with gone. I now live in the NW though, and most people around here say it to rhyme with bone.

Best kind of scone is a plain one with butter, jam, then clotted or whipped cream. Sultana ones are nice too.

Scone to rhyme with cone and cream first. West Yorkshire

The elongated "o". South East Manchester.

Jam first though.

I say scone to rhyme with cone and bone - Yorkshire born, grew up in N Wales and N England, but now live in the South East.

Prefer savoury scones myself.

Scone rhymes with gone.

Londoner here.

Scone rhymes with gone.
I like mine plain, toasted with butter.
I also like raspberry jam and cream.

Scon

London

Scone gone or scone bone?

I’m bone however lived all over the UK.

Skon
Best with sultanas, but cherries also good
Cream then jam, on the grounds that if you have proper (nearly solid) clotted cream it's much easier to put a blob of jam on top.
North West, with London roots and Devonian relatives.

Toasted???

It looks a right mess when people put cream first then jam on top, really unappetising.

I put such people in the same mental Venn diagram set as those who take two passes of the spoon to eat yogurt or ice cream, suck crisps and lick their fingers in public, chew with their mouths open, leave crumbs in the butter and butter in the jam.

Scone like gone. Scottish.

From what I have deduced living all over the place:
Scotland and southern England = rhymes with gone
northern England (certainly from Nottingham up) = rhymes with bone.

Scon - but originally from outside the UK where this is the usual pronunciation.

DH is from South East and says ‘scone’ to rhyme with phone.

I don't think it's regional or class based any longer. It's more how your family say it or what you've decided upon as a family. DH and I say scone to rhyme with drone but he grew up saying scon. I know as many Londoners who say scon as say scone for example.

And it doesn't matter how you eat it or what order you stick stuff on it. Doesn't matter how you eat your steak either.

Scon...as in gone....from South Wales...and I only like cheese ones

To rhyme with gone

No butter

Whether the jam or cream goes first entirely depends on what’s closest to me

Gloucestershire but with roots in Devon, Cornwall, Yorkshire, and various parts of Ireland and have picked up different words for things from different parts of the family

Scon.
Am from NI. We don't do cream with them. Butter + jam. And yes often toasted first, as per Parkhead's post.

From North East and it’s Scone to rhyme with gone to me.
Now live in midlands and they say scone - bone…

@FlatteredFool
Aye, toasted.

Scone rhymes with gone.

Australia

Jam first then cream.