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Katharine · Post by **Katharine** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:02 pm

huntertitus wrote:I rhyme it with gone as opposed to phone which sounds like people pretending to be more posh than they are

Agreed - I couldn't think of a better way of saying it!

Scone Lover · Post by **Scone Lover** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:12 pm

Well, I don't really mind how a person says scone, what counts is how well they are made!

Made well they are wonderful especially with clotted cream and jam.

There are many recipes but I stick to the simplest ones because I am a firm believer in keeping things like that as it leaves less possibility of screw up!

Sometime I will do cheese scones as a savoury alternative.

I would never call it a morbid obsession, I would rather call it a celebration of a simple culinary joy.

cj · Post by cj » Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:39 am

If you rhymed it with the number one it would sound 'scun'.

cj · Post by cj » Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:41 am

Do you include the divine 'drop scone' in your repertoire, or the humble Welsh cake (which is a sort of scone)?

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:22 am

My husband is from a Yorshire pit village and brought up in a council hoiuse, he pronounces said item of the baker's art to rhyme with phone, as does my mother. Father, I and the rest of the family pronounce it as gone, but with a shorter o.

Husband's first boss was an old Etonian and we once asked him to pronounce it, he refused becasue his family argued about it. I think this argument goes on everywhere.

Mrs C. · Post by **Mrs C.** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:47 am

To the best of my knowledge, all my family ( from the North, not that it makes any difference, I`m sure!) ) has always said it to rhyme with gone . Imagine the look of complete amazement when a cousin, in the presence of her sister, myself and various other family members announced that she enjoyed the scones ( rhyming with phones) - she really did get some stick for that!!!

Scone Lover · Post by **Scone Lover** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:44 pm

If I want to annoy people I say scone (to rhyme with own)
If I want to sond like all around me, I say scone (to rhyme with gone)

All I should be saying is give me the yum yum and jam and cream!

Ruthie-Baby(old a/c) · Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:47 pm

I avoid using the word as I am always castigated for sounding posh whichever way I say it, and I can never remember which way the people I'm currently with say it... damn stupid word!

Scone Lover · Post by **Scone Lover** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:57 pm

Well I would defend the word itself but the arguments that can go on over it's pronunciation are well, sad.

This is why I say yum yum and jam and cream or just yum yum

huntertitus · Post by **huntertitus** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:04 pm

I think everyone loves scones but with CHEESE!!!

YEEUUGHHH!!!!

Scone Lover · Post by **Scone Lover** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:10 pm

As a savoury scone, they are fantastic. I have been known to do them with mustard powder in them. That sounds really terrible but it works wonderfully

Ruthie-Baby(old a/c) · Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:34 pm

I'm not averse (sp?) to the idea of scones with cheese in, but I HATE gruyere (sp?) cheese and for some reason bakeries tend to use this cheese in scones, yuck and more yuck ditto cheese straws

Scone Lover · Post by **Scone Lover** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:01 pm

Yikes that sounds awful Ruth, I use what ever cheese takes my fancy.

Ruthie-Baby(old a/c) · Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:26 pm

Good plan can you make me some scones?

Scone · Post by **Scone** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:34 pm

Ask Scone Lover.