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!

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

Scone to rhyme with one, gone, shone, etc. English spelling doesn't have rules like the one you made up.

I'm originally from Birmingham but have lived in several places in England and elsewhere in Europe.

My favourite flavour of scone is cheese: warm with lots of butter.

Northeast - everyone I know says scon. Best type of scone in my opinion is cheese. If it is a fruit one - jam then loads of cream.

East coast Scottish -originally Fife.

The delicious thing that you eat I call a Skon to rhyme with gone.

The palace in Perthshire - Skoon (as an aside when reading Macbeth at school one of the lads kept saying Skon and the teacher would correct less and less patiently each time. Got to the end - which we were all delighted about as we hated it and the boy finished with Scon! "SKOON!!" bellowed the teacher and I think vowed never to get a class to read Macbeth again)

Skon's I would have with clotted cream then strawberry jam if I wasn't a (stupid) vegan. Mmm. Skon with clotted cream and jam.

Scone (like bone) sounds posh to me.

Yog-log-urt.

Now..where do we stand on aapricot or aipricot?

Scone to rhyme with bone. My Dad says scon.. its a mixture with the people I know.

I put the cream and jam on in whatever order I fancy that day.

West Mids.

@GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal

I'm baffled by people saying "scon" is posher than "scone".

To me scone sounds way more posh and pretentious than scone.

"Oh, Miss Haversham, would you perhaps care for a scone?"

Instead of:

"Eeeee pet, gan on, have a scon."

I agree! Scon is definitely the "rougher" version.

I agree! Scon is definitely the "rougher" version.
Scon therefore also the true posh version: scoooooone is uppity non-U, like lavatory and dessert.

Scone (sounds like SKON) for me. I'm from the westcountry (but absolutely do NOT have a regional accent ),

scon.. Lancashire to the core, Well it was Lancashire when I was young. But now Wigan has defected to Greater Manchester and Warrington to Cheshire..

Not even thinking of one scon as too exhausted to bake... lol...

And it was always butter and jam.

scoooooone is uppity non-U, like lavatory and dessert.

Maybe where you live. Not everywhere.

In Ireland, a person saying 'skon' would probably come across like they're trying to be posh.

We also say dessert. I'm guessing you think it should be pudding, but that's just not used here. Nothing to do with being uppity, it's simply regional variation.

As scones appear to have originated in Scotland in the early 1500s, where they are almost 100% pronounced as scon, then scon it is!

Scone, pronounced somewhere between gown and cone, sounds affected in a Scots accent.

Scone as in gone. It's a class thing, lower-class say scone as in own, the rest say scone as in gone.

Similar with Moet & Chandon champagne, lower-class say Mo-ay because they assume it's like that because it's French, the correct pronunciation is Moet as in Poet because Moet was Dutch.

Similar with Moet & Chandon champagne, lower-class say Mo-ay because they assume it's like that because it's French, the correct pronunciation is Moet as in Poet because Moet was Dutch.

Although arguably you'd pronounce the 't' if Moet anyway, because of the liaison before the following vowel.

Scon - Colonial of English descent (Greater London)

To rhyme with gone. From Gateshead.

@Breathmiller

East coast Scottish -originally Fife.

The delicious thing that you eat I call a Skon to rhyme with gone.

The palace in Perthshire - Skoon (as an aside when reading Macbeth at school one of the lads kept saying Skon and the teacher would correct less and less patiently each time. Got to the end - which we were all delighted about as we hated it and the boy finished with Scon! "SKOON!!" bellowed the teacher and I think vowed never to get a class to read Macbeth again)

Skon's I would have with clotted cream then strawberry jam if I wasn't a (stupid) vegan. Mmm. Skon with clotted cream and jam.

Scone (like bone) sounds posh to me.

Yog-log-urt.

Now..where do we stand on aapricot or aipricot?

Scoan Yo as in low gurt Ape-ricot

Moay et shandon ... just like Marie Antoinette. Surely we all learned that one from Freddy

Scone that rhymes with bone

Grew up around the North/Midlands, settled in the south as a young adult

Scon. I’m from rural SE England and now live in London, where it’s also pronounced scon.

Have it with clotted cream and jam, done Cornish wise.

Scone as in gone. It's a class thing, lower-class say scone as in own, the rest say scone as in gone.

Thanks for suggesting that my entire country is lower class. How charming of you.

It's a regional thing, not a class thing.

Although arguably you'd pronounce the 't' if Moet anyway, because of the liaison before the following vowel.

As long as you’re also saying the “et” i guess! Although I pretty much never say Moet!

Midlands, I say scon. I like sultana ones with butter.

Scon. From Lancashire, now live in Edinburgh.

I like a fruit scone with butter. Not keen on cream or jam, personally.

I never say Moet, I say 'Bollinger' instead. Because Moet is horrible.

I never say Moet, I say 'Bollinger' instead. Because Moet is horrible.

I find Billecart-Salmon the best with my scones

Scone rhymes with gone - Nottingham born and bred.

Definitely jam then cream, on a plain scone.

If warmed or toasted with butter on, then cheese or cherry are my favourites.

It's scone to rhyme with gone, otherwise the joke doesn't work.

Scone and I'm from the west coast of Ireland. Usually eat the cheese version buttered but if I'm feeling fancy enough for jam and cream I use plain scones and put one spread on each side them sandwich it together.