The taste of the UK

[Iani]

Scones and crumpets are what I like!

Ahhh but are the scones pronounced "skon" - sounds like "gone" or "skown" - sounds like "phone"?

This is vitally important. I am told the sounds like gone one is correct, and the phone one is a northern thing used by northerners who think it sounds posh, and they are wannabe home counties people and somehow think people in the south say it like phone.

[les_taxi]

Ahhh but are the scones pronounced "skon" - sounds like "gone" or "skown" - sounds like "phone"?

This is vitally important. I am told the sounds like gone one is correct, and the phone one is a northern thing used by northerners who think it sounds posh, and they are wannabe home counties people and somehow think people in the south say it like phone.

Southern softies say Scone as in phone,Yorkshiremen say scone as in gone!

[grahamw48]

Southern softies say Scone as in phone,Yorkshiremen say scone as in gone!

I agree !

I say scone, as in gone.

Oh, and I don't like them with currants and sultanas, like my mother used to make.

Common people call them schones.

[Arthur Little]

Southern softies say Scone as in phone,Yorkshiremen say scone as in gone!

... whereas, Perth folks' pronunciation of the [practically] adjoining village of Scone, is "Skoon" (location of the historical Palace from which the so~called, 'Stone of Destiny' was famously stolen ...