For the first time a member of the Royal Family has done something I will find useful and I am grateful for!

[CurlewKate]

Just saw a video where Prince William was talking about scones, and he pronounced it properly-scone to rhyme with gone! Debate over. Your Royal Highness, all is forgiven. I won’t even ask why you were faffing around talking about scones….

That deserves a 😂. I have always been a scone to rhyme with gone perpetrator so I shall allow myself a short period of vindication. Although quite why I am taking him as the arbiter of pronunciation I'm not quite sure 😊 Good to know though 💐

There's another pronunciation - Scoon, from the Stone of Scone in Scotland. I wonder if that's the origin of this Scon, Scown, Scoon mix.

William annoys me anyway, just thought I'd say that. His smile never seems to reach his eyes for some reason. Very suss. 😊

Never mind the scoon/scone/scOne - does he put jam or cream on first?! :)

I can't handle 'scone' to rhyme with 'gone' at all. Horrid. Like people who say 'garaaaajh' for 'garage'. And I agree with @BasiliskStare -- not sure why a member of the RF would be anyone's guide to pronunciation, or indeed any other kind of behaviour.

Mind you, I hate scones. They seem to require a lot of chewing for not very much pay-off.

Definitely scone to rhyme with gone and always jam on first! Oh, and it must always be clotted cream.

It rhymes with loan, so William is wrong 😁

What's the fastest cake in the bakery?

Scone! [It's gone]

Gavel.

He said jam first-because that’s what his grandmother did. Presumably she also said scon. I mean- what higher authority could there be?

What 🙀

I've said it before and I'll say it again - WTF is all this cream business?? Butter, and plenty of it. Jam if you really must.

Absolutely! Although I am more a butter and raspberry jam girl.

Are you sure? I remember him saying cream first, learnt from QEII.

It’s scone to rhyme with gone. Butter, then jam then cream. No debate.

All gloriously pointless debates demand visual exposition. Here's a scone pronunciation map https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/50339-the-scone-pronunciation-map-of-britain

I was brought up in a strongly purple area.

I cut in half
cream then jam on one
jam then cream on the other
I still don’t know which I prefer
I’m in my 60’s 🙈

I’m a scon pronouncer too! Although I do know logically that an e at the end of a word normally means an ‘own’ pronunciation. But I’m still right, and so is William!! Exceptions are scone and gone

I’m a jam on top of cream though.

At my grandmas birthday party my 'people pleaser' mum insisted on doing the scones (rhymes with gone) both ways, we insisted it's Jam first but my aunts bf does it the wrong way

So why isn't 'stone' pronounced 'ston'?

Yes exactly. Although the woman seemed to be so obsessed with micromanaging etiquette in her family that she wasn't able to find the time to tell her son not to (allegedly) abuse women, sell state secrets and treat staff respectfully!
(also, jam first so that you can stick a massive dollop of cream on top without it falling off)

I agree. My husband a few years ago was amazed I’d never had a cheese scone ( I’m 54) but until I was an adult id never had a normal scone or seen my parents or any relatives eat one. Were they a thing in the 70’s?

@TorroFerney , I think scones have been about since Adam was a boy.

My 70s scone memory was a treacle one, hanging by a string from somewhere up high, and you had to bite bits off it without holding it still in any way. I would imagine some people will have had treacle dripping off them but this was in my childhood home and things like that were not an option. I think it was a Halloween thing. I have not seen or heard of treacle scones since I remembered them last time 😄

Cheese scones!! My favourite 😍

I thought he did rather well 👑

Thanks for posting the link, I'm in a purple bit too. "Scon" is just plain wrong.

#ButterJamCream

he might have been talking about his maternal grandmother… (although I’m honestly not sure whether they were close. His mother and her seemed to have had a difficult relationship IIRC.)