How do you say ‘scone’?

[GrannyMac]

Prompted by a limerick today, do you say scone to rhyme with cone or gone?

I, like every Scot (and quite a lot of English people) rhyme with gone.   My Yorkshire and Cheshire friends rhyme with cone.

So - gone or cone?

[JBR]

Prompted by a limerick today, do you say scone to rhyme with cone or gone?

I, like every Scot (and quite a lot of English people) rhyme with gone.  My Yorkshire and Cheshire friends rhyme with cone.

So - gone or cone?

I don't know who your Yorkshire friends are, Gran, but in Yorkshire most of us say 'scon'.
Perhaps there are some immigrants from the South where you are!  🤣🤣🤣

[Michael Rolls]

I rhyme with cone

[Mups]

Mine's a   'Cone'  too.
I always think if it was supposed to be pronounced Scon,  it wouldn't have an 'e' on the end.

[Raven]

Scone, Gone.

[dextrous63]

Prompted by a limerick today, do you say scone to rhyme with cone or gone?

I, like every Scot (and quite a lot of English people) rhyme with gone.  My Yorkshire and Cheshire friends rhyme with cone.

So - gone or cone?

All of this is of no use unless one knows how you pronounce "gone" and "cone"😉

[Scrumpy]

Gone....
And I put butter/jam on first.. then cream..

[JBR]

Gone....
And I put butter/jam on first.. then cream..

Perfectly logical, and I do the same.  If you try to put the cream on the SCON first and then the jam on top, you'd create a right mess!

[GrannyMac]

Scone, Gone.

Unless it's the Palace or the Stone, then it's Scone, loon! 



April 04, 2025, 01:56:22 PM

All of this is of no use unless one knows how you pronounce "gone" and "cone"😉

One presumes one would on here, seeing as how we are all so intelligent 😃 

[GrannyMac]

I don't know who your Yorkshire friends are, Gran, but in Yorkshire most of us say 'scon'.
Perhaps there are some immigrants from the South where you are!  🤣🤣🤣

Nope, my London born OH rhymes it with gone. I'm in South Yorks it'll be posher where you are!

[dextrous63]

Nope, my London born OH rhymes it with gone. I'm in South Yorks it'll be posher where you are!

I'm with  your OT on the pronunciation.  I too am London born.

[Raven]

[time]April 04, 2025, 13:

Unless it's the Palace or the Stone, then it's Scone, loon!

Correct. 

[JBR]

Nope, my London born OH rhymes it with gone. I'm in South Yorks it'll be posher where you are!

I was born in Bradford (now Bradistan), and you can't get less posh than that.

[klondike]

I use either. In the limerick whichever it was I chose would have been mostly picked from what I could make sense rhyming.

Probably in speech it would be scon unless I had heard whoever I was talking to use the other way.

[dextrous63]

I was born in Bradford (now Bradistan), and you can't get less posh than that.

Language and dialect evolves JB.  So, perhaps you need to adopt the mother tongue of your place of origin...

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