Scone it’s official

Scone rhyme with gone if you are from Scotland.

Coming from a long line of generations from Devon, not only is it 'scone rhymes with gone' but also cream then jam - always!!

it doesn't matter - just eat them with jam and cream - live!

There is a website called howjsay and, on there, scone can be said either way. My DS and DDiL were disputing the word nougat - can be said as nugget or newgar. Interesting.

Heard it yesterday on Radio 4 as officially Scone rhyming with gone, so there we go!!!

jam then cream. Scone rhyme with gone if I think the person might be posh, scone rhyme with groan. My dear mum always used the latter, so therefore not too posh!! Though she probably thought she was. Mrs Bucket

Always knew that Galen...scone to rhyme with moan ...and always jam first!

RUBBISH.
I saw a poll on this subject, conducted on tv, where random members of the public in 2 large town malls in Manchester and Kent plus a town in the Peak district and London. Over 80% pronounced it SCON, with the open 'O'. Some of the rest said they followed the pronunciation of the company they were in at the time.
They were shown the word on a piece of paper and asked 'What does that word say?' not asked 'How do you pronounce it?'
Horses for courses.

Ha, ha, I am from the blue zone in the middle of the country, therefore a Scone is most definitely a BONE, and quite obviously it is jam first or it just makes a mess!

...and it's jam then a blob of cream.

When you make a Victoria Sponge it's jam then cream. Raspberry puffs it's jam then cream.

Gone scone, butter, jam, clotted cream in this house. Though DH is a moan scone!

'A Scone is the stone beneath the throne'
according to my old elocution teacher! So the correct way to say it is scone to rhyme with gone

Elegran perfect summaries via your links. Definitely and definitively scohn - as in one yon scone is soon gone John.

Coming from a long line of generations from Devon, not only is it 'scone rhymes with gone' but also cream then jam - always!!
humptydumpty and DH, but we always put the jam then the cream on, Cornish style - even when we lived in Devon
(hangs head in shame )

I don’t care how it is pronounced, but I do care that jam always goes first. It makes sense anyway...how do you put jam on top of cream...jam is much heavier.

It’s scoan until you’ve eaten it, then it’s sgonn ?

Gone . butter, jam and then cream

Scone to rhyme with bone! I was taught and taught others that the letter e on the end makes the vowel say its name and not its sound! Definitely jam first!

Enough
Bough
Keighley (pronounced 'Keethley'), in Yorkshire

Unlike, say, Italian, English doesn't have standardised pronunciation. 'Scone' has regional pronunciations. Why do people who say 'Scoan' find that so hard to accept? why does someone have to be right?

No rights or wrongs on this thread. Just infinite variety. ?

I like cheese scones with a layer of Philly Cheese then
Cranberry sauce.
It’s the savoury version.?

OED gives both pronunciations and alludes to regional variations - so we're all correct.
We all know how to enjoy them anyway, whatever we put on them in whatever order!
Butter then jam OR jam then cream for me.

All This is just making me wish I had one on a plate right now in front of me!

It’s always been pronounced ‘sconn’ as far as I can recall. I’m not changing now. Just butter on mine, please, you can keep the jam and cream.