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Please help by putting to rest an ongoing debate about how this little bready treat is pronounced...
(such first world problems)
There seems to be two main ways:
1) Sck-on.
2) Sc-ooone.
Now, the crux of the debate surrounds which of these pronunciations is deemed to be "the posh way".
If you could reply following the numbering above and which you deem posh & not posh, delete as necessary below, etc etc... then we can declare a winner.
ie.
1)Posh/Not-posh
2)Posh/Not-posh
Thanks [s]Middleclass[/s] Singletrack World!
The correct pronunciation rhymes with "own".
Skon
It all hinges on whether you put the [s]cream or jam[/s] lorne or bacon on first
Correctly.
Oh, and if you even think about putting the jam on first, I will hunt you down and kill you to death.
HTS has it.
I say it so it sounds like cone and one
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Neither are posh or not posh, I've heard people from all levels of society use both. I use 1. because it's what my parents used, some of my relations use 2).
Rhyms with gone. Not posh.
Scoon.
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It's near Perth.
Unless it's preceded by the word "Totty" in which case it's Skon.
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Damn 26 seconds too late.
Rhymes with gone.
Jacob Rees Mogg washes my car.
Rhymes with on , gone & Simon Le bon
Rhymes with stone, not ston. Little rocks are not stons.
What's the fastest cake in the world?
S'gone
Skon as in rhymes with gone.
scone, stone, bone, phone, moan
The correct pronunciation rhymes with "own".
...is the right answer
DaveyBoyWonder - Member
The correct pronunciation rhymes with "own".
...is the r?i?g?h?t? wrong answer
FTFY
Well, that's that down and dusted then.
Whatever Binners and Ton say, it's the opposite 😛
Scon, like Gon.
Skon,
Don't care if that's right or wrong.
Yep, skon, rhymes with gone.
UNLESS talking about the place with the palace!
Like Stone.
I thought binners pronounced it Nommm, Nommm, Nommm! 😆
Skon.
Butter, jam, cream in that order. In an emergency (such as when the cafe supplies butter in foil wraps that have been in the fridge all week), the butter can be omitted.
I thought binners pronounced it Nommm, Nommm, Nommm!
Just points and grunts doesn't he?
Oh, and if you even think about putting the jam on first, I will hunt you down and kill you to death.
You, sir, can come and have a go, should you consider yourself hard enough.
I pronounce it to rhyme with Stone which everyone tells me is the posh way, but I'm from the East Riding near 'ull so it's just a slight improvement on the pronunciation of "scurn" for me.
Well fired roll, Butter, Square slice, Tomato Ketchup. Tattie Skon.
Breakfast of Champions
Skon. Only been called posh once in my life, by a young gentleman in East Lothian.
Same as Tim Brooke-Taylor in Bunfight at the OK Tea Rooms
Skon and jam on first.
Aye,and mon CFH if yi hink yir hard enuff 😛
Aye,and mon CFH if yi hink yir hard enuff
Mon or moan?
Mon,am fi Edinburger ken. 😉
skon.
as it's just a delivery device for sugar and fat, does it matter?
scotroutes - MemberWhat's the fastest cake in the world?
S'gone
The existence of this joke proves the pronunciation.
Scone sounds like cone. Same letters same sound.
Thick clotted cream then jam on top.
Butter? Wtf?
Same letters same sound
Rong!
For example;
I wound the bandage around the wound.
Whatever pronunciation comes out of my mouth first. I've pronounced it both ways for as long as I can remember, for some odd reason.
Neither are posh or not posh
This. There's a big element of geography.
Wife (Bolton) calls them scones to rhyme with own.
I (frozen wastelands of the M8 corridor) call them scones to rhyme with on.
I am clearly right here.
Scone sounds like cone. Same letters same sound.
Apart from the S of course. No desert for you.
skon.
jam and butter.
toasted.
scotland now, but from the midlans.