Scone or Scone?

[HLaB]

A Sconn is the thing you eat, Skoone is a place :-)

 

[User169]

skon,

but is it jam then cream or cream then jam?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/poll/2010/may/20/cream-tea-scone-clotted-cream

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Jam and cream, natch. Cream and jam is just too ghastly to contemplate.

 

[Archie_tect]

It's a five-letter word with an "e" on the end. So it's prounounced like "drone" rather than "gone".

There is a third option - isn't there a town in Scotland called Scone? I think it's pronounced "skoon".

I agree with that [stone rather than ston]!
Scon in Cumbria, Scone in Yorkshire [at least my bit]

 

[trustysteed]

my mouth's too full of scone, cream and jam to care about how it's said.

 

[longers]

Jam and cream, natch. Cream and jam is just too ghastly to contemplate.

Butter, then jam followed by cream.

Blackcurrant jam is good.

 

[Archie_tect]

Cherry scones are good....

 

[HLaB]

Butter, then jam followed by cream.

Blackcurrant jam is good.

I don't like cream all that much, I prefer them with marge and jam (preferably homemade Strawberry) and a fruit Scone is better

 

[wafflycat]

It's only wimpy-softie southerners, the middle-classes with chips on their shoulders and Guardian readers trying to be posh that say sc-own.

All proper folk know that it is a sc-on.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

...I prefer them with marge...

marge!!!!!!!!!?????????

 

[Panter]

It's only wimpy-softie southerners, the middle-classes with chips on their shoulders and Guardian readers trying to be posh that say sc-own.

All proper folk know that it is a sc-on.

Oi, it's not all Souther softies

Some of us know how to speak proper

 

[Wigsie]

Oi, it's not all Souther softies

Some of us know how to speak proper

But You're from Sittingbourne?

the reason some people pronounce skonn as scoan is socio-economic: post ww II was the start of the rise of the middle classes from those previously considered working class.

the pronunciation of scoan came about as an affectation used by some of those who had 'moved up' and were keen to distance themselves from their working class upbringing (the use of scoan, ironically, gives the game away of course); think annie walker (coronation street) or hyacinth bucket (keeping up appearances) as stereotypical examples.

today the use of skonn/scoan does not delimit class in the same way, but does hint at where their family have come from, so to speak.

oh, and it's skonn…

So this means, Ianrauk and I are better than you because we say sc-oh-n.

 

[Landslide]

marge!!!!!!!!!?????????

 

[Panter]

So this means, Ianrauk and I are better than you because we say sc-oh-n.

Not better, simply wrong

 

[swee'pea99]

Butter, then jam followed by cream.

Blackcurrant jam is good.

Barbarian! Strawberry jam. Accept No Substitutes.