Scone it’s official

I once heard a tour guide inform a group of Americans that what they were eating were called “sconcies” he was winding them up of course but for the rest of the afternoon they kept talking about how delicious the sconcies were.

Now how about Shrew or Shros- bury?

I always called it Shroosbury until I had a rather posh boyfriend who came from there and he told me it should be pronounced Shrowsbury.

Do they eat many scones in Iran and Iraq? If they do, they probably call them something we couldn't pronounce.

What about Iran and Iraq?

granmeg Ha ha that's what I thought too

All my life I pronounced it "moan" until my favourite baker Mary Berry told me it is "gone" - now my favourite radio station is disputing this - totally confused! Jam goes on first (I think!).

MissA, no you’re not, I say it that way too.
I say scone both ways because I’m cosmopolitan!
Now how about Shrew or Shros- bury?
The beeb doesn’t seem to know either

DEFINITELY, that is how to spell it, scone to rhyme with gone, it was quoted on Kitchen Cabinet Radio 4 the other day

tomayto tomarto

let's call the whole thing off

Aldis or Alldis?

Eether, ither, neether or nyther?

paracettamol
or paraceetamol

Prymark and meegraine
oh dear

Really? Never??
I'm amazed!
Now I'm questioning myself. Maybe I'm the only person who has ever said it that way?

Wel, there you have me MissA I have never heard of a jirarfe (having a larfe)

Then there is Prymark or Preemark?
Mygraine or meegraine?

Yes, giraarffe.
Rhymes with 'avin a larf' down this way.

Is there another way to pronounce “giraffe” (jiraff) missA ?
Very very

I don't believe my family has ever tried to be posh.
Why would we?
Its just the same kind of thing as giraffe, and how people pronounce that.

I'm a common northerner and it was and is scone to rhyme with moan

I thought with grammar if you had another vowel in the next two letters then it was pronounced OW not oh making scone rhyme with bone, same principal.

Scone, with a capital "S" is a place near Scone Palace with associations to the "Stone of Scone" upon which the Kings of Scotland were crowned, and is pronounced "scoon".

A scone, with a small "s" is a teatime item, and should be pronounced to rhyme with "gone"

Possibly there are areas of England where this is not well understood and the Hyacinth Buckets, aspiring to be posh, and unaware they are getting it wrong, say scone to rhyme with moan.

Competition.

Scon, but in Cornwall they pronounce it scone. A few years ago I went into a shop and asked the assistant for a scon. I was getting the money out of my purse when I heard the assistant say ‘one scone’ to which I replied one scon please without thinking. I then realised that I had entered into some kind of completion with her and so we went one scone, one scon. This went on for a while and she then asked the other members of staff who all had their own ways of pronouncing it. We never got round to discussing whether the cream comes before the jam or vice versa. Obviously no one had ever told her that the customer is always right?? ?
No pictures of scons but it was a very well known pasty shop and I did go in to buy a couple of pasty’s when I noticed the lovely scons. It still makes me laugh.