Scon Or Scown?

[Zacs-Master]

Well, I just heard Joanna Lumley pronounce it Scon and that's pretty definitive for me!

[Zacs-Master]

Sush DT, you're making me peckish.

[Canary42]

one is pronounced wun

so

surely

scone is pronounced skwun

[Zacs-Master]

Nice alternative.

[marval]

I have always pronounced it scon.

[joggerjayne]

There's actually a place called Scone?? (wolf)

[wolf63]

JJ,

Scone. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scone,_Scotland

I hope the link works

[joggerjayne]

Crikey, wolf ... there really is!

I want to go there.

I've been to Middlesbrough. That must be almost there.

[sandyRoe]

Has this become a kind of shibboleth?

[joggerjayne]

// Has this become a kind of shibboleth? //

(Googles ...)

[wolf63]

JJ, it is a small village near where I stay. Nowhere near Middlesborough, the wrong country in fact.

[joggerjayne]

No, different country, but ...

If you've travelled from here to Middlesbrough, then ...

As a percentage of the journey, it can't be much further to Scone (otherwise you'd end up in ... the sea at the top of Scotland ... ??)

(the Arctic Ocean?)

[sandyRoe]

The North Sea?

[anneasquith]

the north sea,

[DTCwordfan]

very important it is to, but don't go there to see the stone of Scone, JJ, it was with us after Ed 1 nicked it and it still sits under the monarch's bum at the coronation! However, we have let the Scots keep it between coronations in 1996, in Edinburgh Castle crown room.

[joggerjayne]

Very jolly bit of history there.

[Ann]

It's scone to rhyme with own - here in Leicestershire same as we call your crumpets pikelets and we have a bath to rhyme with faff and put our car in a garidge - so there!

[janbee]

SKONN for the cake thing.
SKOON for the Palace.

[1ozzy]

I bumped me skon the uvver day,,,geez it hurt!!!

[Georgiesmum]

scone to rhyme with moan and it always has to be jam on it before the cream. anything else is just wrong!
and yes, im from down south too!

[Ann]

Same here in the East Midlands Georgiesmum!