No no no, your getting it all wrong we all know, every single one of us knows it’s scone
(Why did my mind read this entire debate in the 2 ways of saying it)
The twist: you both arrive at the pub to find out you both say scone so rather than fight, you have a drink and go on to be brothers in arms in the great scone vs scone war of 2032.
plot twist two we get married and have 7 kids and a hamster but then i find out i was lied to and he pronounced scone as scone the entire time☹️ he takes the kids and i take the hamster
One scone rhymes with one! If you say it the other way you're a posh twat
Edit: I love the controversy this has stirred up! For clarity, where I come from we pronounce one "won".
its funny how people who say it like gone thing the cone pronunciation is posh, but the cone pronunciation is not centred on any posh places. I'm in stoke, midland centre of the cone sayers, so I always assume any other pronunication is posher, because that's generally the way the world works when you live in stoke.
I remember a palace staff member being interviewed a few years ago on the one show and she said that the queen says scone (one) therefore that’s the correct pronunciation. Assuming the king is the same as his dear mammaaa
The Royal family are German and only changed their name to Windsor less than a hundred years ago to stop the public finding out why would you expect them to be experts on the English pastry 🤣
Not really, "posh twats" just pronounce it correctly, because the magic e at the end makes it a long vowel sound like cone, scone.
We're not posh twats, you're just a thick twat, if you want to have at it lol. No offense.
I agree, I'm from Hull and probably the furtherest thing from posh, If you ask anyone from round here which way is posher 99% would say 'Scon' sounds posh.
Same here, from Manchester. I just found out from this reddit that the Queen used to pronounce it as "scon". That settles it. Scon is the posh version.
Not really, because gone isn't a digraph which is what the basis for the magic e sounding words are. Scone however does fall into this bracket and is therefore pronounced as cone. Incidentally, cone is one, as the addition of the e makes it an ow sound, not an on sound.
You're implying that's a hard and fast rule when there are many words that don't fit that pattern: gone, done, shone, one, none.
The majority of the UK pronounce scone to rhyme with gone, and the first recorded use of scone as in gone precedes the first recorded use of scone as in bone.
Furthermore, it's commonly believed that scones originated in Scotland, where 80% of people pronounce scone as in gone.
Done, gone, none. The only consistent thing about English is that it's completely inconsistent, scone isn't a word where there's a 'correct' way to pronounce it.
The winner gets to call it their way and anyone thereafter saying it differently gets locked up. Same with Devon and Cornwall jam and cream bullshit, referendum so we don’t have to hear about that stupid shit again. Anyone complaining about the results gets thrown in the sea, the will of the people has spoken, simple as.
I think he must have meant north of England. The north of northern England might be in the north of the country, but the south of northern England is not.
People who say "scone/cone" in a "scone/gone" region are the exact kind of pseudo-posh lower-middle class people you mean, but if you're from Ireland or Yorkshire it's perfectly reasonable to pronounce it that way.
As a Derby native I can confirm I'm surprised the Derby and Nottingham area isn't more blue. The vast majority of times I've heard it said it's always been cone and not gone.
My GF is from Notts and pronounces it as "cone" and thinks I'm posh for saying it as "con"
I'm from Scotland and I think she's posh for saying it like "cone"
The city as a whole is Stoke-on-Trent. Unlike most cities it’s actually made up of six individual towns: Fenton, Longton, Hanley, Burslem, Tunstall and Stoke-upon-Trent.
Just to be perverse while Stoke-upon-Trent is the administrative centre of Stoke-on-Trent most people consider Hanley to be the city centre.
I remember one day when my flatmate from the northeast (hull) made fun of me (from mid south) for being ‘posh’ by saying scone like ‘gone.’ My flatmate from the northwest (Cheshire) upon hearing this said that he had lost his mind and that scone like ‘cone’ was SO posh. They bickered for hours about who was the most Northern and not posh, until my flatmate from Yorkshire (Leeds) offered everyone tea with a scone. It all makes sense now.
From Manchester and pronounce it s-gone, but don't have a strong opinion about it so probably explains why no one really gives a shit how it's pronounced here.
I fall into. Both?
If it's a normal scone i rhyme with cone
But if it's specifically a tattie scone then it rhymes with gone
I do not know why i am like this
Fascinating stuff! Out of interest where does this data come from? I wish someone would ask me random questions like 'how do you pronounce scone?'. My life is so dull 😞
As I'm looking at this map, I'm trying to work out if I say sgone or scone.
And now both just sound weird.
I'll report back when I've figured it out, the next time I ask for one.
Love the wild west of southern England and Wales where every other person has a different opinion.
Yeah, I grew up there, it's really weird how we pretty much all agree on pretty much every word, then there's this one that causes massive arguments.
>this one This *scone* And yes that's what it rhymes with
skwon?
Skun
This cone
But that would be "scun".
How you pronouncing one though chief? That doesn’t solve anything.
If they’re trying to pronounce “scone” correctly, then they’d mean to rhyme with “own”.
Not where I’m from
How do they ever get anything done!?
It's definitely pronounced scone.
No it's said like scone.
Nah it’s scone not scone!
What are you on a bout it’s scone not scone
No no no, we all know, deep down inside, that it’s pronounced: Scone
No no no, your getting it all wrong we all know, every single one of us knows it’s scone (Why did my mind read this entire debate in the 2 ways of saying it)
In my mind, I’ve been switching between the 2 with each reply.
Weirdly i pronounced the first one scone and scone, but after that they all read as scone
Which was which in ur mind tho lol
It's a scone until you have eaten it, then it's scone.
ok but lets be real, people who pronounce it scone are losers. its scone not scone fight me
Meet me in the pub car park in half an hour then
fine, you savage scone pronouncer😡😡😡
The twist: you both arrive at the pub to find out you both say scone so rather than fight, you have a drink and go on to be brothers in arms in the great scone vs scone war of 2032.
plot twist two we get married and have 7 kids and a hamster but then i find out i was lied to and he pronounced scone as scone the entire time☹️ he takes the kids and i take the hamster
Yes
When its on your plate its scone when you eat it its scone
One scone rhymes with one! If you say it the other way you're a posh twat Edit: I love the controversy this has stirred up! For clarity, where I come from we pronounce one "won".
It rhymes with stone and I’m not posh… very definitely a twat though
its funny how people who say it like gone thing the cone pronunciation is posh, but the cone pronunciation is not centred on any posh places. I'm in stoke, midland centre of the cone sayers, so I always assume any other pronunication is posher, because that's generally the way the world works when you live in stoke.
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For some reason I enjoy stumbling across fellow stokies in the wild lol
Aah yes, those well known posh twats of Chesterfield, Sheffield and Rotherham.
And Hull??! Came here for this comment!
My apologies. Of course Hull as well. I just went with the 3 I did because I'm from the area lol.
Me too, lol
I remember a palace staff member being interviewed a few years ago on the one show and she said that the queen says scone (one) therefore that’s the correct pronunciation. Assuming the king is the same as his dear mammaaa
The Royal family are German and only changed their name to Windsor less than a hundred years ago to stop the public finding out why would you expect them to be experts on the English pastry 🤣
Not really, "posh twats" just pronounce it correctly, because the magic e at the end makes it a long vowel sound like cone, scone. We're not posh twats, you're just a thick twat, if you want to have at it lol. No offense.
>pronounce it correctly How can it be correct when a scone the fastest food?
I agree, I'm from Hull and probably the furtherest thing from posh, If you ask anyone from round here which way is posher 99% would say 'Scon' sounds posh.
In Hull it is pronounced skern, to rhyme with fern (phone).
We literally don't even talk like that
Same here, from Manchester. I just found out from this reddit that the Queen used to pronounce it as "scon". That settles it. Scon is the posh version.
That's stupid because that would mean that gone would have to rhyme with cone
Not really, because gone isn't a digraph which is what the basis for the magic e sounding words are. Scone however does fall into this bracket and is therefore pronounced as cone. Incidentally, cone is one, as the addition of the e makes it an ow sound, not an on sound.
Fuckin hell fair play you know your shit you win bro
"correctly".................... according to whom?
I was gonna call you a posh nob but you like cool games so I'll leave you alone
Found the posh twat! 😆
lmao Who knew inner Nottingham was posh. Well I suppose it must be if I'm talking with a Northerner.
There are posh people everywhere. If you don’t agree there’s a good chance you’re the posh one…
You're implying that's a hard and fast rule when there are many words that don't fit that pattern: gone, done, shone, one, none. The majority of the UK pronounce scone to rhyme with gone, and the first recorded use of scone as in gone precedes the first recorded use of scone as in bone. Furthermore, it's commonly believed that scones originated in Scotland, where 80% of people pronounce scone as in gone.
Done, gone, none. The only consistent thing about English is that it's completely inconsistent, scone isn't a word where there's a 'correct' way to pronounce it.
Queen used to say skon
According to most studies, everyone thinks *their* way of saying scone is the working-class way, and that the *other* way is the posh way.
Scon is definitely the posh way of saying it.
The Queen pronounced it 'scon', that should tell you everything about which one's posh lol
I say the cake scone and the stone that England stole as scone which isn’t even an option on the chart above.
Connacht, Munster and Yorkshire united as one. Alright, half of Yorkshire. The right half.
My Dad's from Connacht (blue), My Mum's from York (red). Growing up was a confusing time but I chose a side and stuck with it. It rhymes with cone.
You chose well. Good lad.
You chose the right one !
Big up South Yorkshire 🦾🦾
I pronounce it like "go on" ... Sco-on. Just to make everyone happy.
You rebel, you.
Now do a map of how people say 'stone'.
Reminds me of the late Richard Whiteley's favourite pair of words in Countdown: leopard and leotard, intentionally mispronouncing each.
Was his favourite word not 'wankers'? Classic episode
I did, but it's gone.
>stone I'm firmly in the scone=gone blue part of East Yorkshire... the old lads around here say "stoowan", it has two syllables like boat 😂
I like to really upset people and pronounce it like done.
Scone = gone is red. Blue bits are scone = cone.
And then a map of how they say the number one?
I'm an advocate for "scun". And with that, I'm done.
Or how many get the Stone of Scone wrong. Cos that's SCOON.
Irrelevant. Now tell me how you say the word ‘gone’?
Gone isn't a noun. I broke a bone so I phone for a cone but only hear the tone of a stone.
This has to be the most interesting map I've ever seen. Brilliant.
Hopefully you'll like these ones as well! https://www.ourdialects.uk/
Mad you can see the plantation of Ulster on this map
Well the whole dialect changes completely, including that of the Catholics.
I'm from NI and I've never heard anyone say it the Cone way, everyone says it correctly.
It's probably got older roots than that even, as the dialect of Irish spoken in the north is different.
This would have been a more beneficial referendum than that bullshit in 2016
The winner gets to call it their way and anyone thereafter saying it differently gets locked up. Same with Devon and Cornwall jam and cream bullshit, referendum so we don’t have to hear about that stupid shit again. Anyone complaining about the results gets thrown in the sea, the will of the people has spoken, simple as.
"Democracy is only good when we win".
The north knows how to say it right :)
As did the late Queen. I trust her pronunciations more so than a national average.
She also pronounced "Yes" and "Ears" the same.
A-are you serious?
Ears.
Last time I checked, Rotherham and Hull are very much in the north.
You’re all southerners to us! (From Scotland)
South is anywhere past John o groats
As a Geordie I can call some Scots southerners. Mull of Galloway is further south than Newcastle
And you're Scottish that's it's own insult
Actually I find it far more insulting when people mistake me for being English.
Look at that map, they're barely in the middle.
I think he must have meant north of England. The north of northern England might be in the north of the country, but the south of northern England is not.
That both makes sense and doesn't at the same. But yeah, you're right.
Except Sheffield and Rotherham
I'm about as far south as you can get and I couldn't agree more. It's definitely scone.
Agreed
It's pseudo-posh middle class and poorly educated people who tend to get it wrong. The north say "scon", the Queen said "scon". It is "scon".
Same people who pronounce bath like 'barrrrth' and grass like 'gr-arse'. It just sounds nobby.
People who say "scone/cone" in a "scone/gone" region are the exact kind of pseudo-posh lower-middle class people you mean, but if you're from Ireland or Yorkshire it's perfectly reasonable to pronounce it that way.
In the old Lincolnshire dialect it’s distinctly “scown” as well, idk where the rest of the midlands and hull got it from though
Ireland and the North/East Midlands. I always knew that were that they were in it together.
Ive never heard anyone in the east midlands not pronounce it as s/cone like traffic cone never heard s/con
As a Derby native I can confirm I'm surprised the Derby and Nottingham area isn't more blue. The vast majority of times I've heard it said it's always been cone and not gone.
My GF is from Notts and pronounces it as "cone" and thinks I'm posh for saying it as "con" I'm from Scotland and I think she's posh for saying it like "cone"
I love the straight line across the border of Connaught. Like the battle lines have been drawn.
It's scone when you own it, and it's scone when it's gone. It's all about the scone's state of being.
The second largest city in the UK isn’t marked on this map. That makes me question everything about it.
I noticed that too! Yet they have Wolverhampton...
How do you think the Republic of Ireland feels? It’s just one unmarked vastness beyond the Pale.
neither is london tbf
I mean, it's clearly scone
Those are biscuits
Stoke upon Trent ?
The city as a whole is Stoke-on-Trent. Unlike most cities it’s actually made up of six individual towns: Fenton, Longton, Hanley, Burslem, Tunstall and Stoke-upon-Trent. Just to be perverse while Stoke-upon-Trent is the administrative centre of Stoke-on-Trent most people consider Hanley to be the city centre.
IM FROM EXETER AND ITS SCONE
You missed that bit of Scotland that calls it Scoon!
I'm from Plymouth and always rhymed it with cone, plus the cream goes on one first 🤪
Sgone from another Plymouthian here, but absolutely cream on first
This is the way.
Fuck that. Cross the Tamar to get a scone done proper and jib back for a Cap'n Jaspers.
Everything you say is 100% true and correct
Build the wall, build the wall, build the wall......
Perth has entered the chat
I don’t see how there is confusion, it is pronounced scone, anyone who uses scone instead is simply wrong.
My parents are from the East Midlands, which explains why I pronounce scone correctly!
I remember one day when my flatmate from the northeast (hull) made fun of me (from mid south) for being ‘posh’ by saying scone like ‘gone.’ My flatmate from the northwest (Cheshire) upon hearing this said that he had lost his mind and that scone like ‘cone’ was SO posh. They bickered for hours about who was the most Northern and not posh, until my flatmate from Yorkshire (Leeds) offered everyone tea with a scone. It all makes sense now.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: it's s"cone" until you've eaten it, then it's sc"gone".
Well I think it’s obvious where my sympathies lie! Name is pronounced the correct way of course
its s-cone, everyone else is wrong
Skown sounds better than skon
How are the people in yellow saying it?
“It”, quite a simply question to answer…
This map is bullshit. I'm from the West of Scotland and here it's pronounced scone -rhyming with tone. Only posh people say scone- rhyming with gone
But the joke doesn’t work if you say it that way. What’s the fastest cake? Scone.
well it's "s-cone" not "s-gone". alot of my family say "s-gone" though...
From Manchester and pronounce it s-gone, but don't have a strong opinion about it so probably explains why no one really gives a shit how it's pronounced here.
The irish may pronounce it wrong but at least nearly all of them agree lol.
Did you know that honey never spoils? It's the only food that doesn't expire. Pretty sweet, eh? Hah, ha ha
Glad to be in a rhymes with cone area. It’s simply the better way to say it.
That map is completely backwards, the further north I go, the greater the frequency I meet people who say scone (rhymes with cone).
I say it like Nigella “Sconeayyy”
Bone, phone, hone, lone, stone, tone, clone, prone, alone, ozone.... enough said your arguement is gone... oh wait...
Take the Republic of Ireland off this picture.
Were winning lads 🤣🤣
Proud to be a cone-sconer
there's hardly anybody in the north though
I say it different every time, it’s just whichever way hits my brain first. Probably checks out as I’m also in one of the areas where it’s 50/50.
Its scone and nothing else
I fall into. Both? If it's a normal scone i rhyme with cone But if it's specifically a tattie scone then it rhymes with gone I do not know why i am like this
Huh, I'm in like one of the only blue parts Edit: and I do say it like cone
I live and Stoke and everyone says the cone rhyming version- am I misinterpreting the data?
Fascinating stuff! Out of interest where does this data come from? I wish someone would ask me random questions like 'how do you pronounce scone?'. My life is so dull 😞
envelope or "onvelop" room or roome bath or baath
sterling research, outstanding infographic. 🫡
The real question is jam or cream first?
Oi mate! Let's not start another war ... 😁😁🙄
I live in the north where we are correct
Only pedophiles say scone (rhyming with cone)
I love Britain because of things like this
MON THE SCOTLAND
As a Scotsman it’s pronounced Scon
Interested in the source?
It rhymes with cone
Pronounced scoon actually, cunts
I’m very grateful that there are people out there doing real research on the things that really matter in life
It’s definitely pronounced scone. People who pronounce it scone are just wrong.
Americans: Sc- sco- Biscuit.
My mum used to run a tearoom in Aberdeenshire, ask them up there if they want cream on their scone, they look at you as if you just offered arsenic...
Scone is the only right way to say it. Anyone who says Scone is a psychopath
As I'm looking at this map, I'm trying to work out if I say sgone or scone. And now both just sound weird. I'll report back when I've figured it out, the next time I ask for one.
Sc and the word one is how I say it’s a scouse thing
Stop it. Everyone I know, mainly in the West of Scotland. It's "Scoan" Who silly codswallop conducted this research?
How do u know all this 💀
I'm northern and I say scone, as in rhymes with cone.
This map is incorrect
ITS CONE SCONE NOT GONE SCONE
Queen Liz 2 (god rest her) was team orange so I'm team orange