Scon!

[Charlotte]

Well I worked in Greggs for a year when I was at College and can confirm most Brummies asked for a "SCON", apart from one lady who used to say "ONE FRUIT SCONE PLEASE", in a really posh old lady accent. I was like "oh a SCON", I think she hated me serving her.....

FYI : She still goes in there every Saturday and gets her SCONE too....

 

[hmallett]

Scone. It's even bloody spelt that way.

So how do you pronounce "gone"?
H

 

[Dobby]

Yup its a scon

whatsername who did that book about housekeeping.....

Mrs Beaton thats the one, she called it a scon as well

HA!

 

[PNL]

Well I'm sorry to disillusion you people but the scone/scon is nothing more than a mutant Welsh cake Mmmmmm :nerner:

 

[fiatdownunder]

just as an after thought, have you not got some kind of peom for this CJ_CHINQY to help us all truely decide on what the correct way should be?! :idea:

 

[KirstyTL]

So how do you pronounce "gone"?
H

How do you pronouce cone? :tosser:

 

[hmallett]

How do you pronouce cone? :tosser:

That's the point!
English is not a phonetic language. The same combinations of letters can be pronounced differently, simply because that's the way it is.
-one is pronounced differently in "cone", "gone", "one", "abandoned", "coronet".
Just because cone is pronounced one way it doesn't necessarily mean that scone is pronounced the same
H