scones!!

[leah666]

y do ppl call scones 'scons' wen its obviosuly a scone cos u spell it like stone but u dont 'ston' do u??? but then they mention the weird thing about gone that u say 'gon' not gone or sumthing but they r scones!!!!!!! sorry who esle says them the normal way?? sonces i mean not 'scons'>???

[Jansy]

I say scones both ways. I call sweet scones, "scones" and savoury scones, "scons".

[leah666]

mmm cunning........i like it i just hate wen ppl only say "scons" n then every one has amssive arguement about it!!! like my whole class had this massive discussion abotut wether water had a taste!!!!! we r lost!! but i think does have a taste! of water cos u say things tatse watery

[melandraf]

Ha ha ha ha, had this argument with my Dad for years... apparently the Queen says 'skon' so that's good enough for me. Everyone has their own ideas i suppose. Like "Either" and "neither", they can both be pronounced differently..... But when it comes to the cruch, if it has jam and cream on it i am happy.....

[leah666]

hahahaa so true but i think the queen shud start calling them scones i tink it sounds less posh if u say scone....ah well

[IndieSinger]

Less posh?! leah666 let me tell you, I live in a tearoom and the only people who pronounce it with a /@U/ vowel sound (to rhyme with "bone") are the elderly, upper-class "I own a pony, several classic cars and a villa in Spain", hoighty-toighty, holier-than-thou, "I never go to the toilet" upperclass folk out for a drive in the countryside to mingle with the peasants, because that's what normal folk do, isn't it, what what? The other way with the /Q/ vowel sound (to rhyme with "gone") is how the unpretentious people say it.

[Janetex]

I say scon according to my bible (OED), but I don't care how anybody else says it.

[gazzawazza]

Right. When I was a kid, I would never dream of saying anything else but sconn, but since I've grown up, I say the opposite of whatever anyone else says just to annoy them!

I'm a tinker aren't I?

[molly]

.... mmmmm ....... freshly baked sconns with home made raspberry jam topped with a generous dollop of clotted cream. Heaven ...... mmmmm.

[melandraf]

MMmmmm, yummy... Molly - i'll be round to your house for tea tomorrow then.......

[Tat]

i say 'scon' which rhymes with 'gone' which is appropriate because they always are if they are near me for long (which also rhymes by the way...) ;)

[Tinker]

gazzawazza - I thought I was a tinker??! arf arf........just for the record I say 'scone' as in 'cone'..

[darth vader]

actually i always was of the opinion it is a north/south divide thing - up in Yorkshire they are sconns.

[Casey]

I'm in the north-west and I say 'scones' but there are a fair few up here who describe them as 'scons' which to me sounds incomplete! I guess it's what you're use to your family saying or something.

[leah666]

i give up........i am not posh indiesinger.......u kno i wish i never metioned it

[darth vader]

ha ha ask a question with no definitive answer and you'll always get a raging debate on here. "I say Potayto you say Potarto, you say Tomayto i say Tomarto, (potayto potarto tomayto tomarto, lets call the whole thing off!")

[darth vader]

actually the answer is Nebraska

[bernardo]

scone as in gone

[Paul---G]

They are normally all s'gone when they are stuck infront of my lot!!!!!!!!!1

[saffstar]

They can't be pronounced scone because then that old Uncle joke wouldn't work: (when there's a scone in close proximity) Uncle: That cake's magic, I can make it disappear. Kid: Oh yeah, how? (Uncle shoves scone into mouth) Uncle: See - s'gone!

[quopius]

there are a million and one examples of peculiarities in the english language, we don't like rules, we just like to say things the way we like. take worcestershire for example