Scone it’s official

Definitely scone to rhyme with gone. I don't care what order the jam and cream go on though!
Seriously I think it's great that we can pronounce things differently but still understand what we mean.

I heard something on radio 4 too.
Scone rhymes with gone.
Jam before cream.
Like Elegran I like to put butter on first.
Scones with fruit should be just served with butter.

No I'm sorry, it's scone like gone. Jam first then lashings (in fact a mountain of) cream.

That's because it has to be clotted cream grandtante, best made in Cornwall and possibly Devon!

None of your whipped rubbish

"horrified" grandtante? That's a bit of an overreaction isn't it? ???

Precisely JanaNana.

Scone as in Sloane. If you were eating a scone with butter and jam, the butter would go on first, therefore the cream is replacing the butter and likewise goes on first.

Gone for scone, and jam first as they do in Cornwall.

Could it be that we have been mispronouncing 'gone' all this time?!

Any other Scotswomen horrified at the very thought of cream on scones? I thought it was only in Devon they did that.

We ate our scones buttered, and rarely, only when visiting one great-aunt, were offered jam as well!

According to Chambers- 20th century dictionary, scone is pronounced skon. They then add that in the South of England pronounced skôn.

Anyone else smiling?

They might just as well have written, "Away wi' ye, ye Sassanach fuils!"

Scone to rhyme with moan is the ancient coronation site of the kings of Scotland (and Charles II).

It's scone to rhyme with cone for me. And it's always cream first then jam. I couldn't have both butter and cream on a scone, that's such a dairy overload . I have always thought of cream as being in place of butter, in which case it should be put on first. After all, you wouldn't spread marmalade on your toast and then butter on top

Scone to rhyme with gone.

Scone as in gone when I am in Waitrose.

Scone as in own when I am at the Garden Centre.

What a snob I am ?

There is do much argument about it I can remember how I pronounce it. Just butter for 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.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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!

Gone . butter, jam and then cream

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

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.

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 )