[Food] Scone - Pronounciation

[Is it PotG?]

 

[fleet]

You have admitted that you are wrong by spelling it without an E to make it sound right. Putting the E at the end makes it rhyme with cone!

Nah

 

[Petee]

I pronounce it the right way and that is scone.

 

[Landgull]

My Dad from Surrey and Mum from Yorkshire and in our house it has always rhymed with GONE.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

I eat a Gone while i park my motor in my Garidge.

.

 

[Albion_Dave]

Scone in 60 seconds.

 

[Triggaaar]

As we seem to be having an evening of random threads (well, it is the international break after all), I'm going to call on NSC's collective wisdom to settle a debate chez Frutos - scone to rhyme with gone, or scone to rhyme with cone?

How strange, I had this exact conversation with the kids yesterday morning.

On a slight tangent, jam then cream, or cream then jam?

Jam then cream, spreads easier that way.

Shone
Gone
Scone

 

[Petee]

What if everyone is wrong and it rhymes with done and none?

 

[severnside gull]

If you're Scottish it can rhyme with moon.
But I've always gone with John.
Bone is frankly effete to the point of pretentious.

 

[empire]

Must be warm,jam then cream,and never brought in,must be homemade on the premises! !

 

[Grassman]

I grew up in Portslade (born in Shoreham) and always rhymed it with gone. Scone as cone sounds very posh, and wrong.

I grew up in Portslade and was born in Portslade. I'm not posh. I say scone to rhyme with cone. To me the way you say it sounds posh. This is getting interesting now. South or North Portslade?

 

[Grassman]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/340...eals-north-south-is-key-to-how-people-say-it/

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I grew up in Portslade and was born in Portslade. I'm not posh. I say scone to rhyme with cone. To me the way you say it sounds posh. This is getting interesting now. South or North Portslade?

South.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

I'm from Sussex and say it to rhyme with gone, my partner is a Northerner (well, Derbyshire) and says it to rhyme with cone.

Obviously a Northerner won't know how to pronounce it correctly, but the answer is it rhymes with gone.

 

[dazzer6666]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/340...eals-north-south-is-key-to-how-people-say-it/

That survey is bollocks. I was brought up in a decidedly ‘orange’ area, but virtually everyone there used the ‘cone’ pronunciation.......and I’ve seen a lot of scones eaten (years of cricket teas in particular)

....and always went cream first.


We also preferred a decent Chudleigh to a scone anyway. Topping is the same (cream then jam) but nicer than a scone.

 

[Robinjakarta]

Pronunciation??

Correct. Surprised nobody spotted that before.

 

[melias shoes]

Cone.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Pronunciation??

I'd just noticed that and was checking through to see if anyone had pointed it out.

This might lead to some controversy..... now how do you pronounce that? (remember Monty Python)

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Depends where you're from.

Or, indeed, Frome.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I'd just noticed that and was checking through to see if anyone had pointed it out.

This might lead to some controversy..... now how do you pronounce that? (remember Monty Python)

Er.... that? (to rhyme with ****)