Pronouncing the word 'Scone'

[moose]

It rhymes with Scorn where I live.

 

[kea]

Types out word "jihad"

Runs.....

ah don't start that again, i reckon we should have the scone wars. much more original

grtho, i wanna hear the story about the stone of scone!!

edit: are you in edinburgh steeplejack? if so, come for a pint next time i'm in town

 

[Sasaferrato]

1. Really, Longdog, those Sven Hassell novels are having a deleterious effect on your prose style....

2. I'd defer to that Kairdiff long-hair on the subject of lavabread or Welsh cakes, but not on the subject of the cone, I'm afraid.

The last person to offer cucumber sandwiches round here ended up with his head on a pole outside edinburgh castle. I'd suggest those advocating "scoan" as RP would suffer a similar dismal fate north of the border.

And you REALLY don't want to know where the sandwiches were rammed before we took his head off.

 

[mr steev]

scone/john = right

scone/joan = la de da

 

[jd]

Scone (rhyming with John) is deffo for posh English toffs or wannabe toffs!

Scone/John - traditional UMC pronunciation

Scone/Joan - posh in the Mrs Bouquet sense. For try-hards, as Ern would say.

 

[jd]

Joanists: I can see who you are and it's very wrong.

 

[tarannau]

scone/john = right

scone/joan = la de da

What a load of ras.

Scone clearly rhymes with Joan - as poncey as they may initially seem.

Anyone who says differently is an affected Northerner - someone who's been watching too many editions of Corrie, wears flat caps indoors and frequently speaks in 'ecky thump' Hovis-style tones to mimick his Northern friends (in fact they're more likely to come from Surbiton)

Scone doesn't rhyme with John, no more than a traffic 'cone' rhymes with scone...

 

[steeplejack]

ah don't start that again, i reckon we should have the scone wars. much more original

grtho, i wanna hear the story about the stone of scone!!

edit: are you in edinburgh steeplejack? if so, come for a pint next time i'm in town

Embra's the big city for me.

I live about 70 miles north, where scones are scohns and aye will be.


where I live is on my profile you lazy journo

 

[treefrog]

scone=john, never heard any Weegie pronounce it any other way.

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

Scone (rhyming with John) is deffo for posh English toffs or wannabe toffs!

and welshies.
You very rarely hear anyone here use scone/joan.
Does that make us all toffs?

 

[kea]

where I live is on my profile you lazy journo

i don't bother with profiles, nobody ever puts anything useful on there
anyway, what's your profession then???

edit: i didn't know scones were a scottish invention ....

 

[steeplejack]

and welshies.
You very rarely hear anyone here use scone/joan.
Does that make us all toffs?

They didn;t seem to exist when I was there. Only Welsh cakes.

Maybe that was just where i worked.

 

[mr steev]

Anyone who says differently is an affected Northerner

A typical response from a posh southerner

 

[passenger]

you really can use both i use joan myself

 

[internetstalker]

scone (john) yes!!


cone how do you pronounce that?

food (geddit) for thought!!

 

[Dissident Junk]

What a load of ras.

Scone clearly rhymes with Joan - as poncey as they may initially seem.

Anyone who says differently is an affected Northerner - someone who's been watching too many editions of Corrie, wears flat caps indoors and frequently speaks in 'ecky thump' Hovis-style tones to mimick his Northern friends (in fact they're more likely to come from Surbiton)

Scone doesn't rhyme with John, no more than a traffic 'cone' rhymes with scone...

Can I just say . . . I am a northern who grew up around people that wore flat caps and said things like 'puet wud innth 'oile, ur laass" and lived in villages that were used to film the Hovis ad . . . .

. . . and every-one I know said scone to rhyme with Joan - probably because you can then say the word with a characteristic broad Yorkshire 'ohrrr' drawl in the middle, as in 'do you fancy a sco' ohrrrrnnne"

Yu can't do that with scone to rhyme with John, it is too short.

And therefore rubbish.

 

[Calva dosser]

Moose's pronunciation; "Scorn" would be closer to the original, if the etymological provenance was Old Norse, as one suspects.

 

[Calva dosser]

"and lived in villages that were used to film the Hovis ad . . . ."

Shaftsbury? /pedant off.

 

[flimsier]

It's John for me, because the only people who ever used to make them were my Gran and Great Grandmothers - and that's what they called them - but they were Scottish (1 of whom never got further than Edinburgh in her life [from Bo'Ness])

 

[tarannau]

A typical response from a posh southerner

Look, only posh and affected Southerners would say scone rhyming with 'john.' Saying scone like 'john' is the sort of fake arsed received pronunciation that the Royals insist on. How's that work then - you can't make 'cone' rhyme with 'john' without the aid of couple of plums in the mouth and a ridiculously stiff-upper lip - what makes you think 'scone' is any different?

Scone rhymes with 'Joan.' Unless you're a wannabe posho or a try-hard fake Northerner that is....

 

[aurora green]

Look, only posh and affected Southerners would say scone rhyming with 'john.' Saying scone like 'john' is the sort of fake arsed received pronunciation that the Royals insist on. How's that work then - you can't make 'cone' rhyme with 'john' without the aid of couple of plums in the mouth and a ridiculously stiff-upper lip - what makes you think 'scone' is any different?

Scone rhymes with 'Joan.' Unless you're a wannabe posho or a try-hard fake Northerner that is....

I totally agree with this.

 

[steeplejack]

Scone rhymes with 'Joan.'

if you're a welshman with a subconscious "English cringe"....

 

[Dissident Junk]

"and lived in villages that were used to film the Hovis ad . . . ."

Shaftsbury? /pedant off.

Well, Last of the Summer Wine then . . .

 

[steeplejack]

I totally agree with this.

you and fifteen other deluded southerners....

 

[tarannau]

if you're a welshman with a subconscious "English cringe"....

Look, no decent Welshman's ever going to be found eating something called a scone are they? Only the most deluded and most turncoat-Taffy would turn aside the wonderful Welsh cake in favour of the dull old scone...

 

[milesy]

Look, only posh and affected Southerners would say scone rhyming with 'john.'

you calling me "posh"?!?!?

 

[MysteryGuest]

I think there are places where they pronounce it skøn (“skern” )


What are those people like, I wonder?


<-- wondering sort of face

 

[Masseuse]

Mystery Guest pronounces it "poo".

But he's a very silly man.

 

[milesy]

yes he is.

very silly indeed.

 

[Masseuse]

He's so silly he won't even join our club .

I said he could join for a curly wurly but I'm yet to see it.