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….

But how does he pronounce bath?

Shower 😄

Yes but he also puts the cream on first.
Bloody heathen!

Thank you

They certainly were, and in the 60s too. My late DM made the lightest, fluffiest sour milk scones ever. (The soured milk activates the raising agent - bicarbonate of soda.)
And according to family members from the west country, it’s butter on first , then jam then a good dollop of clotted cream balanced on top.

I saw that, he is one of the people 😀

Eek-I misrepresented the Prince. Of course he said cream first then jam! I must have temporarily lost my mind. Agreeing with a member of the RF was too much for me!

Well I did think they were from reading books but I had started to doubt it! Obviously a deprived childhood.

Yeah, well, don't get into the habit of it! Next thing you know you'll be tugging your forelock and camping out for a week to wave little flags at royal weddings.

William's great grandmother was Scottish and grew up at Glamis castle, just a few miles from Scone. So she will have pronounced the foodstuff correctly to rhyme with gone. Worth pointing out that scones originated in Scotland (like all the best baking) and so we are the ones who pronounce it properly, you purple folk are just wrong.

It’s scone - like phone, alone, bone, clone, drone, crone, prone etc (not ect!)
im a southerner so I must be right 😉

Gar-arge is the correct way - from the French. Garidge is common.

So does Mary Berry - Queen of Baking!

If it was Diana's mother adopting the Cornish way and his paternal grandmother following the Devonian, the marriage of Charles and Diana was doomed before it had even begun 😁

The picture of the scone wrangling granny on the video was definitely TLQ.

Well he would say scone (to rhyme with gone) because that's how the upper classes always pronounce it. It's also pronounced that way in many regions of the UK. I'm in the West Country where it's usually pronounced scone (to rhyme with loan) but I think we're rather outliers in this respect. I'm also a pleb.

Yes - on every count!

😁Southerns say loch like lock which is not correct.

Absolutely lush. Now we have visual proof that pretty much the only reason for the ridiculous scohne pronunciation even being a Thing is that London does it. Centre of the world, not.

Scon! Scon! Scon! 😂

See? Reference my earlier post! (Joking of course, love you @StormGazing !)

Haha I saw that and he also added the cream first - which is my way!!!! (Taught to him by his grandmother…)

I'm now a fan of PW.

Scone, as in comes with jam and cream, is never pronounced Scoon!

It's scone rhymes with gone or scone rhymes with loan. Obviously rhymes with gone is correct.

I’m a butter girl.

And if you asked for a scone (gone) in Oldham no one would have a clue what you were talking about.

Same as bath, cooker and garage.

It’s never pronounced scoon! That’s a place. A place with a stone…..