Scone: Rhymes with gone or phone?

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I understood that the former was the "refined" way of saying it although many believe that it's the latter.

I think it is regional. We say it to rhyme with "gone". Posher people further South than us "phone". ( )

Whoops, I should have added a "?" at the end of that being in the pedant's corner!

they can't be that posh if they say it like phone, believe me.

TMWOSQ - no no NO! Jam, THEN cream. You can dollop cream, but you need to spread jam.

I prefer cream alone... Jam is waaay too sticky for my liking

It's definately jam and then a dollop of cream.

Well, I'm originally from the South and have never been corrected for saying it as if it rhymed with "gone" anywhere.

Scone rhymes with phone in my world. There is a Scone Palace in Perthshire, Scotland and I think it is pronounced to rhyme with phone.

Exactly OMDB. I always thought that those who did were trying to be so.

gone.

I always thought it was the Stone of Scoon...?

Phone.

Monkeybird - am sure it is.

3boys and I mentioned that on page 1

I'm northern, isn't it a north/south thing.

(obv not quite as north as Scotland which is a whole other ballpark)

gone as I'm a Northerner...
but I guess phonically it should be phone

mil = phone (she is a bit like Mrs Bucket). Will have a quiet chuckle when she tries to talk posh.

Oh what about butter? Yum.

butter
jam
then cream! yum!

It is Scoon (as in Palace and Stone)

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I'm from the South West home of the clotted cream tea.... I say scone as in gone and put cream on first, then jam (must be strawberry and home-made!).

Gone

you can tell because in Betjeman's How to Get On In Society he rips the piss out of a very nouveau social-climbing woman, and she rhymes it with stone.

Scone Palace is pronounced scoon.

Scone that you eat rhymes with gone.

Not sure that scone and phone have any connection. I am from Scotland, and hear people ordering scones every day, and have never heard it rhyming with phone.

phone. in ireland.