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!

"Scon" to rhyme with gone. Liverpool.

Scone to rhyme with cone. Jam always first and then cream. You can spread the jam and then dot the cream on. If you try and do it the other way the jam doesn't dot on properly (well decent jam doesn't)

Scone to rhyme with gone. Plain or sultanas but not cheese.

I'm not keen on jam as I haven't got a sweet tooth, just a little bit of butter, so a traditional cream tea doesn't appeal.
I have tried them toasted and like them although I would always wait for them to cool before buttering as I'm one of those weird people who can't stand melted butter. I wait for my toast to cool before buttering for breakfast in the morning. Most people seem to love melted butter don't they?

I forgot to say that I've always lived in either London or East Sussex.

Scone like cone. South East, with Londoner parents.

Scone like gone. I'm from the south east and find it hilarious when people say scone like cone 🤣.

It sounds like 1930s English to me

There must always be separate knifes and spoons for jam/butter/cream. There must be no mixing going on. That's illegal.

Are you a follower of Scone the Baptist or Scone of Arc?

Scone of Arc for me. Far south east.

I don't think anyone's linked to this yet - here's a handy map showing how pronunciation varies by location.

brilliantmaps.com/scone-map/

Scone rhymes with gone, Kent.

Jam First, I now live in Cornwall.

You can spread a nice even layer of jam all over the plain scone, then spoon a nice hefty dollop of cornish clotted cream on top as the crowning glory.
Trying to spread good clotted cream not only disturbs the crust but ends up in a sticky mess and also is not enough cream, and too much jam if you go the other way around.

Scone to rhyme with gone. From NE England and Scotland.

Plain are best with jam and clotted cream.

Scone as in gone. Scouser. I like them with blueberries in.

Scone cone zone phone - Yorkshire born and bred; Must have jam-flexible with the rest.

Scon, but DH insists it’s scone, we are both from Northants

We are from the south east, but not London and say scone. Daughters say scon…probs just to annoy me.

@catelina

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.

In my American accent, shone rhymes with cone, and so does scone

Clotted cream and jam is the best, and I full agree they go in that order.

Now I want a scone.

Scone rhymes with spoon.

Scones like cone and butter only. North West :)

Sconn for the cake; Skoon for the palace.

Lothian

My copy of Fowler's Modern English Usage says Scone is correct but Scon is more commoplace

Scottish born and bred, but lived in Yorkshire for a long time. It’s always scon. I’ve never heard it said any different in Scotland. DH Londoner, scon.

Had to be skon otherwise the ‘what’s the fastest cake in the world?’ joke doesn’t work!

Australia:

Sconn

Jam then whipped cream (sorry)

@CraftyGin

Sconn for the cake; Skoon for the palace.

Lothian

Scone, to rhyme with gone (which also has a magic e but doesn’t follow the rule).

Whenever I hear people pronounce scone to rhyme with cone I think they’re trying to sound like they’re posher than they are

I’m in Scotland. Cream (preferably clotted but whipped will do in a pinch), then jam. Jam preferably raspberry.

I once read a Paul Hollywood recipe where he suggested having scones with chocolate ganache, and I thought he ought to have been fired from Bake Off for that heresy.

Scone to rhyme with cone. Cheshire.

My favourite are fruit (cherry and sultana), just aired so not properly warm but not cold with butter. I'd eat a plain scone cold with jam then whipped cream.