Just because radio 4 said it doesn't make it right! Scone to rhyme with gone - a scone, there one minute and gone the next
But definitely jam first Galen - that's the Cornish way and proper clotted cream next and no fruit in the scone unless you want to just have it buttered.
Re; the debate about cream or jam first ? Almost impossible to spread the jam over the cream as it causes the cream to slide off the scone.??. Scone has always rhymed with 'Con' for me.
Wordhippo hedges its bets and quotes all possibilities including the regal one! For me its scone/gone and definitely butter - jam - cream. Simply because the jam would slide off the cream (I do like generosity).
I say scone rhyming with gone. No point in arguing about pronunciation. May as well argue about cassel and carsel. Isn't the jam first in Devon and cream first in Cornwall? ( all a matter of balance. )
What a relief Galen. I got it right when a lovely friend decided I needed cheering up and took me out for a cake and a cup of tea. A fruit scone, with jam and cream is such a cheering thing and that's what I had.
Scone gone girl here too. Butter then jam or jam then cream. Down South but parents from up north so perhaps that explains it. I always thought moan scone was the upper class way to pronounce it.