Scones

[Brian Freeze]

Question of the year so far -

How do you pronounce scone?

And do you get irritated by how other people pronounce it?

Also a knockout recipe for cheese scones would be gratefully received. Do I need sour milk for the bestest ones?

Got butter, flour, smoked cheddar and some goats cheese so far. Aiming for two sorts not a big mix up.

Thanks x

[L. Bizarglow]

Is it scon or scone? Pretty easy question if you ask me.
Yeah it pisses me of massively if people pronounce it scon.

[Buelligan]

Associate scone with people trying to sound posh and find that pronunciation mildly embarrassing but realise not everyone who says scone is like that.

On posh pronunciation also found myself irritated by the actors in The Crown pronouncing how as haow - like Sibyl Faulty - rathen than howh.  The reason Sibyl spoke like that was because she was a scone person not a posh person.

[BlodwynPig]

Ginger, cinnamon, cheddar and orange marmelade Scon

[Clatty McCutcheon]

Definitely 'scon', rhyming with 'gone'. The 'scoan' pronunciation is quite annoying, like people pronouncing envelope as 'on-velope'.

The scone pronunciation map seems to have parts of S/W Yorkshire, E Lancs, the Stoke area, Humberside etc. as strongholds of the 'scoan' pronunciation, whereas in Ireland there is a very clear trend for scoan the further south and west you go.

https://brilliantmaps.com/scone-map/

[Gurke and Hare]

Definitely 'scon', rhyming with 'gone'. The 'scoan' pronunciation is quite annoying, like people pronouncing envelope as 'on-velope'.

Or, you know, people who can read and can see that there's a fucking magic e there.

[shiftwork2]

Is it scon or scone? Pretty easy question if you ask me.
Yeah it pisses me of massively if people pronounce it scon.

How do you pronounce gone?  Actually you probably do.  You lot.

[Glebe]

[lauraxsynthesis]

Definitely 'scon', rhyming with 'gone'. The 'scoan' pronunciation is quite annoying, like people pronouncing envelope as 'on-velope'.

The scone pronunciation map seems to have parts of S/W Yorkshire, E Lancs, the Stoke area, Humberside etc. as strongholds of the 'scoan' pronunciation, whereas in Ireland there is a very clear trend for scoan the further south and west you go.

https://brilliantmaps.com/scone-map/

That would explain why I used to say scoan when I lived in Cumbria and at some point years after moving to London it changed to scon. I feel like I'm speaking RP like a posh twat when I say scon, but no option feels right anymore.

[Maurice Yeatman]

How do you pronounce gone?  Actually you probably do.  You lot.

I might be a lon voice but I don't like your ton.

[Dex Sawash]

Just piss biscuits isn't it

[ros vulgaris]

It's 'John Scone with Butter On'
not 'Joan Scone with Butter Own'.

[Berries]

Also a knockout recipe for cheese scones would be gratefully received. Do I need sour milk for the bestest ones?

Scon.

And yog-urt, not yoh-gurt while you are at it.

Easy recipe for a morning scone.
Sift 3 cups plain flour, 1 tbsp baking powder and 1 tsp salt into a bowl
Mix in 2 tsp caster sugar and most of 3 cups of grated cheese
Add roughly 300ml normal milk and mix it all together. Add a bit more milk if you need it, you will know when it is ready
Drop it on your floured worktop and roll out until it is about 15mm thick and then cut into whatever sized pieces you fancy
Glaze with milk, sprinkle the rest of the cheese over them and bake at 180 fan for about 15 minutes.

Makes one giant scone, a few medium sized ones or quite a few small ones depending on how many people stayed over. Slather with butter and gerritdownya.

[Mr Banlon]

S-choni (in an Italian accent)

[Maurice Yeatman]

Susie Dent says either is valid, but like me she pronounces it to rhyme with gone. Then again she laughs at Jimmy Carr so can we trust her?

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

Sconethorpe

[Theoretical Dentist]

If Scottish people love pronouncing 'scone' like 'sconn' so much, how come in the Stone of Scone it's pronounced 'scoon'?

[jamiefairlie]

Scon.

And yog-urt, not yoh-gurt while you are at it.

Easy recipe for a morning scone.
Sift 3 cups plain flour, 1 tbsp baking powder and 1 tsp salt into a bowl
Mix in 2 tsp caster sugar and most of 3 cups of grated cheese
Add roughly 300ml normal milk and mix it all together. Add a bit more milk if you need it, you will know when it is ready
Drop it on your floured worktop and roll out until it is about 15mm thick and then cut into whatever sized pieces you fancy
Glaze with milk, sprinkle the rest of the cheese over them and bake at 180 fan for about 15 minutes.

Makes one giant scone, a few medium sized ones or quite a few small ones depending on how many people stayed over. Slather with butter and gerritdownya.

A gooseberry and cinnamon yo-gurt and a lovely scone.

Clearly it's scon for normal people.

[Beagle 2]

Northern lad and I say scoan. They're luxurious, delicious things, they deserve an elongated and seductive word rolling around the mouth. Say scon and you might as well slap your willy on the table and shout "I SPEAK AS I FIND".

[Cold Meat Platter]

[Glebe]

[Berries]

That would be so useful if I wasn't colour blind.

[Shaxberd]

Team "scon" here, which I think puts me in the minority for my region. Blame that one on my mum being a southerner, picked up a lot of my pronunciation from her as a kid and not all of it shifted.

[shiftwork2]

Scoan.  The Hyacinth Bucket telephone voice.  The oval-shaped bit of carpet on top of the toilet lid.  The fondness for the Lib Dems.  Scoan.

You must hear yourselves.  The question is how are you able to live with yourselves?

[Glebe]

Is it scon or scone? Pretty easy question if you ask me.
Yeah it pisses me of massively if people pronounce it scon.

That's how Mole on the stop-motion Wind in the Willows pronounced it.

[Brian Freeze]

Scon.

And yog-urt, not yoh-gurt while you are at it.

Easy recipe for a morning scone.
Sift 3 cups plain flour, 1 tbsp baking powder and 1 tsp salt into a bowl
Mix in 2 tsp caster sugar and most of 3 cups of grated cheese
Add roughly 300ml normal milk and mix it all together. Add a bit more milk if you need it, you will know when it is ready
Drop it on your floured worktop and roll out until it is about 15mm thick and then cut into whatever sized pieces you fancy
Glaze with milk, sprinkle the rest of the cheese over them and bake at 180 fan for about 15 minutes.

Makes one giant scone, a few medium sized ones or quite a few small ones depending on how many people stayed over. Slather with butter and gerritdownya.

thanks for the recipe, just wondering why you prefer plain+bicarb as opposed to self-raising? Or is that another regional variation that can be depicted on a map? (preferably suitbale for the colourbind)

[Brian Freeze]

I think the only other thing I know about scones is Blindboy saying his mum keeps dropping them off at his house because whenever she has the oven on she fills the remaining space with trays of scones so as not to waste the heat/energy/money.

[Brian Freeze]

Just piss biscuits isn't it

Do you put biscuits on your cobblers over there?

[ros vulgaris]

It's scoan if you have plastic swords above your mantelpiece and crocheted doilies on your loo roll and that's the end of it.

[Aleister Growley]

Here in East Yorkshire its more like Scern.