Scone it’s official

HurdyGurdy So if you sit on one you have squashed your "scwun"?
Scone gone
none done
bone lone phone zone
some come
home

Day6 yes. Rhymes with moon.

Three cheers for humptydumpty!! That is how to say it and eat it! The Devonians know! As for all this talk about "if you put the jam on top of the cream it squashes the cream out" - well, you are obviously using the wrong cream! It's clotted cream you use on a scone! As for comparing it with a victoria sponge, my heart sinks....

gillybob Precisely! Those who start 'own'ing around scones are just trying to sound posh. (pron. poash?)

grannybuy. Butter? People use butter? On scones? (Pronounced as in 'gone".) Never! The clotted cream, on first, does the moistening bit and then the jam gives it the sweetness.

There's no “own” in scone like there’s no “arse” Newcastle

Nope! It's scone as in "gone"! And the jam or cream first bit depends whether you are in Devon - cream first (my way) or Cornwall - jam first which I think doesn't work with clotted cream and suggests you are using an inferior cream which will not support the jam.

Nuh-uh. You're all wrong.!!!

How do you pronounce "one". It's like "won"

So - they're sc-wons

Like the majority it’s one scone, with jam first, because I’ve never served a dish of cream with fruit on top. However, if someone ever offers me one scone or a lone scone I’d accept either.

I'm with Galen on this one. Galen and Radio 4 just cannot be wrong!!

Scone/gone.
Jam then cream.
In Ireland and Scotland anyway.

In NE Scotland, it's scone/gone for the most part. Maybe we should accept that it's one of those 'regional' pronunciation things. Absolutely no butter for me if it' s jam and cream. I didn't know that anybody used butter with jam and cream. I split my scone and put jam on each half first, with the cream on the top, then eat each half separately.

Anja, are you a Diplomat? Yours is a great answer to this perennial problem!!

It's pronounced 'Scoon' in Scotland, isn't it? The place, I mean.

I thought the kings of Scotland were crowned in Scone to rhyme with soon?!

I don't like a fruited scone with jam and cream, they just need butter. And with a plain scone (pronounced however you like) - if it's clotted cream then it goes on before the jam but ordinary whipped cream has to be on top of the jam otherwise the weight of the jam squashes the cream out of the sides and it then falls down the front of my clean jumper .... bitter experience here.

Not in Scotland! Its a scone, as in yon...and by the way, we crowned our kings on the stone of Scone which rhymes with loon/moon/noon.

Tone, cone, lone, scone....

There's never a lone scone in our house, mind.

It's nabbed and usually eaten with butter and jam. Unless some truly evil person brings clotted cream into the house, and then we just have to eat it. On top of the jam.

Yum. I am glad a cream tea tends to be a summer treat for us. Thinking: I don't like mince pies. Perhaps I could make scones with jam and cream a Christmas tradition?

I’m Yorkshire born and my family always pronounced it scone to rhyme with bone! My Grandmother, who was from London, also pronounced it that way.

I couldn't give a monkeys! I'll have my scone how I want it and I'll pronounce how I want to as well. What chance world peace!!!!!!

Scone to rhyme with phone. Butter then jam for me and no cream but definitely with fruit. We've discussed this in our walking group (because we have to finish with coffee and scones) and there seems to be no pattern to how it's pronounced - north, south, posh, poor. Bit like the latte divide (there is no R in it).

Wrong on both counts. Radio Four doesn't know the difference between men and women these days so how they should think they can pronounce ultimately on something as important as a prime baked good I do not know.

I agree with Lynne59 - magic ‘e’! ?

who cares what you call it. Just put the jam (first) and cream and enjoy

Gone
One
None
Scone

granmeg ?