Scone it’s official

Elegran perfect summaries via your links. Definitely and definitively scohn - as in one yon scone is soon gone John.

'A Scone is the stone beneath the throne'
according to my old elocution teacher! So the correct way to say it is scone to rhyme with gone

Gone scone, butter, jam, clotted cream in this house. Though DH is a moan scone!

When you make a Victoria Sponge it's jam then cream. Raspberry puffs it's jam then cream.

...and it's jam then a blob of cream.

Ha, ha, I am from the blue zone in the middle of the country, therefore a Scone is most definitely a BONE, and quite obviously it is jam first or it just makes a mess!

RUBBISH.
I saw a poll on this subject, conducted on tv, where random members of the public in 2 large town malls in Manchester and Kent plus a town in the Peak district and London. Over 80% pronounced it SCON, with the open 'O'. Some of the rest said they followed the pronunciation of the company they were in at the time.
They were shown the word on a piece of paper and asked 'What does that word say?' not asked 'How do you pronounce it?'
Horses for courses.

Always knew that Galen...scone to rhyme with moan ...and always jam first!

jam then cream. Scone rhyme with gone if I think the person might be posh, scone rhyme with groan. My dear mum always used the latter, so therefore not too posh!! Though she probably thought she was. Mrs Bucket

Heard it yesterday on Radio 4 as officially Scone rhyming with gone, so there we go!!!

There is a website called howjsay and, on there, scone can be said either way. My DS and DDiL were disputing the word nougat - can be said as nugget or newgar. Interesting.

it doesn't matter - just eat them with jam and cream - live!

Coming from a long line of generations from Devon, not only is it 'scone rhymes with gone' but also cream then jam - always!!

Scone rhyme with gone if you are from Scotland.

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.

Must rhyme with cone or it would be spelt sconn

Totally agree with Galen !!

I’m a scone gone girl. I shall now go and bake some because reading all this has given me a craving!

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.

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. )

www.wordhippo.com/what-is/words-that-rhyme-with/scone.html

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).

Rhymes with gone, I think elegran has nailed it once and for all!

I always called the place Scooone
ie The Stone of Scooone

(I'm English though)

Scones are soon gone, in this house . No jam or cream needed, just a thick spread of best butter and a good cup of tea. Heavenly!

Definitely scooooone. X