It's scone not 'scon' alright!

equalsql · May 2018

Bloody google speach pronouncing scone as 'scon'.
As a born southerner with roots in Devon and Cornwall I can fundamentally state that the correct pronunciation is scone as in cone.
I tried to drill this into my antsy daughter as she kept playing back the google 'version' to me!

I don't know, bloody cosmopolitans corrupting the language.

Oh and by the way real scones don't have dried fruit in them! .. What are people thinking!

Hummpphh

Sporky · May 2018

While I agree entirely about the pronunciation, I think the important thing is to celebrate the scone and the cream tea at every available opportunity.

I have no horse in the raisin race.

Phil_aka_Pip · May 2018

I don't mind the dried fruit, its the cheese I don't like.

I suspect the further north you go the shorter the vowel becomes. I mind that a lot less than southerners putting an 'r' in words like bath path past where there isn't one! And I don't like hearing latte pronounced as lartay.

equalsql · May 2018

Sporky said:

....I think the important thing is to celebrate the scone and the cream tea at every available opportunity.

Oh I agree entirely!

fandango · May 2018

Scone rhymes with cone. End of.

Best taken with jam and clotted cream. Either first, although I think Her Majesty takes them with jam first, then cream on top. If that’s good enough for her, who am I to disagree?

There was some news last year where this was all settled.....

.... oh yes, here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/news/survey-reveals-correct-way-to-pronounce-scone/

guitarfishbay · May 2018

It’s a scon.

Or do you have a hot choco - late, as opposed to a choco - early.

BigMonka · May 2018

I may be a born and bred southerner too but I disagree with you on both the pronunciation and the fruit.
Sporky is entirely correct though, the most important thing in all this is to eat them as frequently as possible!

guitarfishbay · May 2018

Wait.

Cream then jam?

Or

Jam then cream and being wrong?

chillidoggy · May 2018

It's definitely a scone, if it was a scon, it wouldn't have an 'e' on the end of it.

Sporky · May 2018

guitarfishbay said:

Wait.

Cream then jam?

Or

Jam then cream and being wrong?

Depends whether you're in Cornwall or not.

The rest of the country finds it hard to get upset about how someone else arranges their scone toppings.

This is why it's a jolly good idea to go to Cornwall on holiday, but an even better one to stop once you get to Devon.

Kilgore · May 2018

I reserve my scorn for scone.

octatonic · May 2018

And yet gone is pronounced 'gone' and not 'goane'

ftumch · May 2018

Actually it's scun as in done.

Winny_Pooh · May 2018

Scone & Moan, appropriate rhyming words for the taxidermied section of society.

skunkwerx · May 2018

Am a Londoner and have always pronounced it cone with an s on the front.

Unsure how the family in Brixham say it, but whenever I go, theres a gluten free place I can eat at that did some mean scones! Both cream n jam, just whack it all over n enjoy the hell out of it!!

Now my northerner friend on the other hand calls these types of food ‘bread cakes’. But shes said Scon before, I’m sure of it lol

Gagaryn · May 2018

Na, it's scone, rhyming with gone. You're all wrong. Bloody southerners.

57Deluxe · May 2018

and is pronounced sooon for that place in Scotland

snakemanStoo · May 2018

I always pronounce it 'scone' not 'scone'

Gagaryn · May 2018

57Deluxe said:

and is pronounced sooon for that place in Scotland

Scoon

shaunyshaun1234 · May 2018

It's scon and it's always cream first!! If you're making a jam sandwich , you don't put the jame on first do you!

57Deluxe · May 2018

/\ I was emphasising the oooo

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