Scone it’s official

There is do much argument about it I can remember how I pronounce it. Just butter for me

Scone as in gone when I am in Waitrose.

Scone as in own when I am at the Garden Centre.

What a snob I am ?

Scone to rhyme with gone.

It's scone to rhyme with cone for me. And it's always cream first then jam. I couldn't have both butter and cream on a scone, that's such a dairy overload . I have always thought of cream as being in place of butter, in which case it should be put on first. After all, you wouldn't spread marmalade on your toast and then butter on top

According to Chambers- 20th century dictionary, scone is pronounced skon. They then add that in the South of England pronounced skôn.

Anyone else smiling?

They might just as well have written, "Away wi' ye, ye Sassanach fuils!"

Scone to rhyme with moan is the ancient coronation site of the kings of Scotland (and Charles II).

Any other Scotswomen horrified at the very thought of cream on scones? I thought it was only in Devon they did that.

We ate our scones buttered, and rarely, only when visiting one great-aunt, were offered jam as well!

Could it be that we have been mispronouncing 'gone' all this time?!

Gone for scone, and jam first as they do in Cornwall.

Scone as in Sloane. If you were eating a scone with butter and jam, the butter would go on first, therefore the cream is replacing the butter and likewise goes on first.

"horrified" grandtante? That's a bit of an overreaction isn't it? ???

Precisely JanaNana.

That's because it has to be clotted cream grandtante, best made in Cornwall and possibly Devon!

None of your whipped rubbish

No I'm sorry, it's scone like gone. Jam first then lashings (in fact a mountain of) cream.

I heard something on radio 4 too.
Scone rhymes with gone.
Jam before cream.
Like Elegran I like to put butter on first.
Scones with fruit should be just served with butter.

Definitely scone to rhyme with gone. I don't care what order the jam and cream go on though!
Seriously I think it's great that we can pronounce things differently but still understand what we mean.

granmeg ?

Gone
One
None
Scone

who cares what you call it. Just put the jam (first) and cream and enjoy

I agree with Lynne59 - magic ‘e’! ?

Wrong on both counts. Radio Four doesn't know the difference between men and women these days so how they should think they can pronounce ultimately on something as important as a prime baked good I do not know.

Scone to rhyme with phone. Butter then jam for me and no cream but definitely with fruit. We've discussed this in our walking group (because we have to finish with coffee and scones) and there seems to be no pattern to how it's pronounced - north, south, posh, poor. Bit like the latte divide (there is no R in it).

I couldn't give a monkeys! I'll have my scone how I want it and I'll pronounce how I want to as well. What chance world peace!!!!!!

I’m Yorkshire born and my family always pronounced it scone to rhyme with bone! My Grandmother, who was from London, also pronounced it that way.

Tone, cone, lone, scone....

There's never a lone scone in our house, mind.

It's nabbed and usually eaten with butter and jam. Unless some truly evil person brings clotted cream into the house, and then we just have to eat it. On top of the jam.

Yum. I am glad a cream tea tends to be a summer treat for us. Thinking: I don't like mince pies. Perhaps I could make scones with jam and cream a Christmas tradition?

Not in Scotland! Its a scone, as in yon...and by the way, we crowned our kings on the stone of Scone which rhymes with loon/moon/noon.

I thought the kings of Scotland were crowned in Scone to rhyme with soon?!

I don't like a fruited scone with jam and cream, they just need butter. And with a plain scone (pronounced however you like) - if it's clotted cream then it goes on before the jam but ordinary whipped cream has to be on top of the jam otherwise the weight of the jam squashes the cream out of the sides and it then falls down the front of my clean jumper .... bitter experience here.