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….

Oooh oh oh, I can answer this having been to a garden party at Buckingham palace

Is it upper-class or just a bit Hyacinth Bouquet

Because nothing about spelling the English language makes sense?

Yes- he said cream first.

I think rhyming it with "loan" is much more Hyacinth Bucket, especially when the pronunciation is stressed.
"Would you layke to partake of a skee-own with some preserve?"

Yay I'm scottish so thoroughly approve. Found it so strange when I moved to England and heard it pronounced to rhyme with throne, although William should perhaps make it rhyme with his future seat😁

It's sc-oh-n.

I can forgive him though, he is only human after all.

No- scon is posh, scone is Hyacinth Bouquet.
”Milk and then just as it comes, dear?
I’m afraid the preserves full of stones.
Beg pardon, I’ve soiled the d’oily
With afternoon tea cake and scones”

How about scone to rhyme with done.

Why does done not rhyme with scone or scone?

Oh i am.getting my scon and scone muddled 😀

I think we can agree about the place with a palace in Scotland, as for the treat with jam, I doubt it.

I disagree with the Prince of Wales on this.

100 percent with you on this up until:-

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

It makes sense to spread the jam over the butter and then add the cream. Otherwise the crew gets scraped off as you apply the jam. Or maybe the cream first pp aren’t as liberal with their ingredients and just add a teaspoon of cream with a teaspoon of jam plonked on top?
Save your cream scones for occasional afternoon teas and enjoy a hearty cheese scone with plenty of butter for morning tea or lunch on a more regular basis.

They've been a thing since forever.

We pronounce it scon here, and it's jam first for me, then whipped cream (I can't stand clotted cream). Just to make sure I have two small scones every week at my favourite cafe! The highlight of my week.

Yes! The voice of reason!!! (If I did put Jam and cream on my scones... it rhymes with gone btw, I'd probably go with jam first, then cream, then the top, then, just to annoy everyone I'd turn it upside down and eat it like a sandwich, yes, I am a monster, no, I don't care!!!)

William is wrong- it’s scone, rhymes with stone!

It’s just another one of those ridiculous class markers posh English people go in for so they can tell if you’re “one of us”. Like toilet and lounge and pardon and garrige and what you call your evening meal.

Does he also enjoy ice cream cons

I'm jam first because I like butter too and putting butter and cream together just seems wrong. Putting jam between them allows for double dairy. I also put jam on cheese scones! Around Scone Palace people call them scons.

That is definitely the best royal news.
The correct pronunciation of scone, and I'm genuinely pleased.
I also liked the info about the late Queen and the jam/cream debate. 👍 👑

Begone! (Which rhymes with scone).
William speaks the truth!

You are living the dream. Plus pronouncing scone correctly.

Jam then cream. He is civilised 🤣

That's a tasty plateful.

The same way that rough, bough and through don't rhyme with each other.