User482 said: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".
threebikesmcginty said:Jam and cream, natch. Cream and jam is just too ghastly to contemplate.
I don't like cream all that much, I prefer them with marge and jam (preferably homemade Strawberry) and a fruit Scone is betterlongers said:Butter, then jam followed by cream.
Blackcurrant jam is good.
HLaB said:...I prefer them with marge...
wafflycat said: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.
Panter said:Oi, it's not all Souther softies
Some of us know how to speak proper
alecstilleyedye said: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…
Wigsie said:So this means, Ianrauk and I are better than you because we say sc-oh-n.
longers said:Butter, then jam followed by cream.
Blackcurrant jam is good.