Next week on ITV 2 : Chris drives up and down the M1 shouting the geographically incorrect names for a bread roll in a bid to rile up the locals. The show ends with a particularly nasty incident in the Wakefield area when he is struck on the head with a stale crumpet and failed to refer to it as a pikelet. Seventeen died in the ensuing stampede.
S’gone!
Is there an actual legit answer to this? Based on the etymology of the word, etc.
I’ve always said it as in “rhymes with bone” or.. rhymes with cone, since it’s the closest word to it. No idea if it’s correct, that how everyone round here says it and it seems logical so I went with it.
Couple of bites and s’con
We need King Charles to tell us!
Sometimes I say scone, but sometimes to mess with my dad, I say scone.
It’s Scone, because you have to get them before they’re all (s)gone
Games scone.
I pronounce it like: /skɒn/ (sk-on).
My ears have never liked the sound of /skoʊn/ (sk-oh-n).
But I think, technically, it is the more so-called “posh” sounding pronunciation that is correct. Because it’s spelled with an “e” at the end, which means, according to the rules of English, the “o” should be a long vowel.
I prefer it rhyming with goon
Sconé
Rhymes with bone
It rhymes with Leviohsa
For anyone interested it’s just ticked over to 2 hours at 14:33 meaning the Poll started at ~12:30
Scone rhymes with cone with the additional s at the start having no impact on vowel sound
The Scone/Scone split is so divisive because unlike every other British thing it doesn’t seem to be really tied to region or class. I swear it’s just completely random.
I’ve been peddling this theory for years but hear me out:
A sliced Scone is a Sk-ON – because one half can be placed Sk-ON top of another.
A complete one is Skone, because it’s on it’s Sc-own.
I will waive the Nobel prize in lieu of the cash reward.
My accent slowly matches whoever I’m talking to, and in a group just flips between randomly. ( Not actual accent but pronunciations.of nouns like in “foot”, “scone” and “fast”. Also the infamous midlands “wha'”)
I say Scone, my wife says Scone. Whenever we make some, we passive aggressively say our way as often as we can
I pronounce them scone as in done
I love trolling him just to see if I can get a rise out of him
Waiting for a madlad to appear saying that it’s pronounced like “one” with “sc” in front of it.
I think we need to stop the debate entirely, because I’ve just found out Australia sometimes deep fried their scones and calls them puftaloons
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And there’s the Scots, who pronounce the place (and stone) to rhyme with “spoon”.
And you don’t even link it… tut tut tut
[https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxcxFMelMOXlSg1F4d-CfOhjaeNlQSeUcr](https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxcxFMelMOXlSg1F4d-CfOhjaeNlQSeUcr)
It is scone until it is scon
A)Gone rhymes with bomb,
B) Gone rhymes with Gnome
Next week on ITV 2 : Chris drives up and down the M1 shouting the geographically incorrect names for a bread roll in a bid to rile up the locals. The show ends with a particularly nasty incident in the Wakefield area when he is struck on the head with a stale crumpet and failed to refer to it as a pikelet. Seventeen died in the ensuing stampede.
S’gone!
Is there an actual legit answer to this? Based on the etymology of the word, etc.
I’ve always said it as in “rhymes with bone” or.. rhymes with cone, since it’s the closest word to it. No idea if it’s correct, that how everyone round here says it and it seems logical so I went with it.
Couple of bites and s’con
We need King Charles to tell us!
Sometimes I say scone, but sometimes to mess with my dad, I say scone.
It’s Scone, because you have to get them before they’re all (s)gone
Games scone.
I pronounce it like: /skɒn/ (sk-on).
My ears have never liked the sound of /skoʊn/ (sk-oh-n).
But I think, technically, it is the more so-called “posh” sounding pronunciation that is correct. Because it’s spelled with an “e” at the end, which means, according to the rules of English, the “o” should be a long vowel.
I prefer it rhyming with goon
Sconé
Rhymes with bone
It rhymes with Leviohsa
For anyone interested it’s just ticked over to 2 hours at 14:33 meaning the Poll started at ~12:30
Scone rhymes with cone with the additional s at the start having no impact on vowel sound
Made me think of the videos of this guy.😄
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdVfggsy/
The Scone/Scone split is so divisive because unlike every other British thing it doesn’t seem to be really tied to region or class. I swear it’s just completely random.
I’ve been peddling this theory for years but hear me out:
A sliced Scone is a Sk-ON – because one half can be placed Sk-ON top of another.
A complete one is Skone, because it’s on it’s Sc-own.
I will waive the Nobel prize in lieu of the cash reward.
My accent slowly matches whoever I’m talking to, and in a group just flips between randomly. ( Not actual accent but pronunciations.of nouns like in “foot”, “scone” and “fast”. Also the infamous midlands “wha'”)
I say Scone, my wife says Scone. Whenever we make some, we passive aggressively say our way as often as we can
I pronounce them scone as in done
I love trolling him just to see if I can get a rise out of him
Waiting for a madlad to appear saying that it’s pronounced like “one” with “sc” in front of it.
I think we need to stop the debate entirely, because I’ve just found out Australia sometimes deep fried their scones and calls them puftaloons
https://preview.redd.it/7k7tb9tw9kmf1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fbacd3df6092649ce80e1f8cf64a4902eeb7e2df
Rhymes with Monet.
S’gone – fastest cake in the world
Thinking about it logically it should probably be pronounced scone, but i was raised pronouncing it scone and will continue that way.
It’s scone. Otherwise the joke wouldn’t work.
May I suggest Scone rhymes with done
Scone rhymes with grug
This is exactly the content I love this sub for
Let’s add to the argument.
Is it Scone as in Done.
Or Scone as in One.
I pronounce gone as gohne, and bone as bon. Where do I stand here?
I love him
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