Scone it’s official

Definitely scone rhyming with cone and jam first

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.

Scone ( to rhyme with ‘gone’) for me, and Esspee beat me to it with Scone!

Lynne59- add 'gone' to your list!!

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.

As in 'Sconservative' perhaps!

I've seen people put the cream on first then just blob the jam on top.

Anja you could try putting currants in one half and not the other

Galen it's a con!! Rhymes with scone

Don't be ridiculous

Scone (the eatable one not the place with a palace) rhymes with gone.

"One theory holds that is derives from Dutch schoonbrood (literally, pure/clean bread), another that it comes from sgonn, Scots Gaelic for a large mouthful." from bigthink.com/strange-maps/the-great-scone-map-of-the-uk-and-ireland

Recording of pronunciation of schoonbrood - www.howtopronounce.com/dutch/schoonbrood/

Pronunciation of scone by social climbers. philologicon.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/scone/

Done and dusted. I rest my case.

Scone gone for me too. I've never heard scone to rhyme with bone in Scotland. Isn't it here they were invented!

Scone rhymes with gone here. Though DH would disagree.

At least, he'd try to.

Definitely scooooone. X

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!

I always called the place Scooone
ie The Stone of Scooone

(I'm English though)

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

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).

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.

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

Totally agree with Galen !!

Must rhyme with cone or it would be spelt sconn

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.