Scone it’s official

It's pronounced 'Scoon' in Scotland, isn't it? The place, I mean.

Anja, are you a Diplomat? Yours is a great answer to this perennial problem!!

In NE Scotland, it's scone/gone for the most part. Maybe we should accept that it's one of those 'regional' pronunciation things. Absolutely no butter for me if it' s jam and cream. I didn't know that anybody used butter with jam and cream. I split my scone and put jam on each half first, with the cream on the top, then eat each half separately.

Scone/gone.
Jam then cream.
In Ireland and Scotland anyway.

I'm with Galen on this one. Galen and Radio 4 just cannot be wrong!!

Like the majority it’s one scone, with jam first, because I’ve never served a dish of cream with fruit on top. However, if someone ever offers me one scone or a lone scone I’d accept either.

Nuh-uh. You're all wrong.!!!

How do you pronounce "one". It's like "won"

So - they're sc-wons

Nope! It's scone as in "gone"! And the jam or cream first bit depends whether you are in Devon - cream first (my way) or Cornwall - jam first which I think doesn't work with clotted cream and suggests you are using an inferior cream which will not support the jam.

There's no “own” in scone like there’s no “arse” Newcastle

grannybuy. Butter? People use butter? On scones? (Pronounced as in 'gone".) Never! The clotted cream, on first, does the moistening bit and then the jam gives it the sweetness.

gillybob Precisely! Those who start 'own'ing around scones are just trying to sound posh. (pron. poash?)

Three cheers for humptydumpty!! That is how to say it and eat it! The Devonians know! As for all this talk about "if you put the jam on top of the cream it squashes the cream out" - well, you are obviously using the wrong cream! It's clotted cream you use on a scone! As for comparing it with a victoria sponge, my heart sinks....

Day6 yes. Rhymes with moon.

HurdyGurdy So if you sit on one you have squashed your "scwun"?
Scone gone
none done
bone lone phone zone
some come
home

Scone, the place with a palace is pronounced "scoon"

Scone, for eating with a cup of tea is pronounced to rhyme with gone.

Anyont who pronounces scone to rhyme with moan runs the risk of being mistaken for Hyacinth Bucket.

Scone to rhyme with bone where i come from,if it was scone to ryhme with gone it would be spelt scon

And would gone be spelt gon?

Scone, to rhyme with John. Unless you are, or want to be, very U.

I agree with Bathsheba, Scone like Cone and definitely clotted cream spread on first instead of butter, then jam. A true cream tea does not have butter so the cream takes the place of the butter and the scone is best broken in half rather than cut.

Nope I’m definitely in the Scone to rhyme with moan camp

There really is no “w” in scone or am
I missing sowmething?

One owns the scowne ? Nah

The word scone is very correctly rhymed with gone.

I have been lucky enough to hear this correct pronunciation from two of the very best sources:

I have been invited to attend a summer Garden a party at Buckingham Palace on two memorable occasions.

Just before enjoying Afternoon Tea the assembled party were reminded that her Majesty refers to the said edible delicacy as a scon and to pronounce it otherwise is wrong.

Secondly, the Queen of Baking Mary Berry very clearly pronounces the word as scon.

If these two venerable Ladies pronounce it this way - that is good enough for me.

Always jam first on my scone ( to rhyme with moan). .

Is it a North /South division-or just that posh people say scone ( to rhyme with gone) ,?? What do other gransnetters think ?

Scone as in loan. Or as my dear friend from Glasgow says: “ They wee cakey things”.
Forget the jam, I’ll have extra cream.
Call ‘em what you like and eat them warm from the oven.