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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!

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.

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

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

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.

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!!!

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!

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!

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

I think everyone loves scones but with CHEESE!!!

YEEUUGHHH!!!!

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

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

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

Good plan can you make me some scones?

Ask Scone Lover.