Scon instead of scone ?

[lectrolove]

It's a scone! Unless you're a posh Southern numpty, but what do they know?

 

I'm a Southern numpty and I've always said scone. My Scottish mother-in-law, on the other hand, said scon.

[metalman]

Why do someone say scon ? You wouldn't say bon instead bone.

 

Equally though you wouldn't say gone instead of gon.

[I1L2T3]

It's pronounced 'scon' in Scotland to rhyme with gone. Not really posh, southern, or numpty! Rhyming scone with phone sounds very Hyacinth Bucket to me. ☺️ A poll was done a couple of years ago, 'scon' is the more popular pronunciation.

 

http://metro.co.uk/2016/11/02/finally-its-been-revealed-how-to-say-scone-6229066/

 

It's a scon in many parts of the North west as well

[silentP]

Equally though you wouldn't say gone instead of gon.

 

...and then there's DONE which has a sound all its own. It's almost as if the South and the North reached a compromise

[Becky B]

It's pronounced 'scon' in Scotland to rhyme with gone. Not really posh, southern, or numpty! Rhyming scone with phone sounds very Hyacinth Bucket to me. ☺️ A poll was done a couple of years ago, 'scon' is the more popular pronunciation.

 

http://metro.co.uk/2016/11/02/finally-its-been-revealed-how-to-say-scone-6229066/

 

Now I think scon is more Hyacinth Bucket! I've always thought that was posh.

I say scone (and you can make that sound very common indeed )

 

I suppose the definitive answer would be - how does the Queen pronounce it!

[Hairyloon]

What is the correct way?

 

Easy. It's a scone, but once eaten it's scone.

[silentP]

Now I think scon is more Hyacinth Bucket! I've always thought that was posh.

I say scone (and you can make that sound very common indeed )

 

I suppose the definitive answer would be - how does the Queen pronounce it!

 

Teegebäk of course.

[cgksheff]

I suppose that it is about time to throw "The Stone of Scone" into the affray?

[cressida]

I've always pronounced it as scone:D

[silentP]

I suppose that it is about time to throw "The Stone of Scone" into the affray?

 

....been done already