UKCasual

Edinburgh-er here - skon for the cake thing, skoon for the town. Skown never.

Normally when you say 'skoon' you're referring to the 'stone of scone', our big lump of magical red sandstone, which is obviously completely unlike any other bit of rock you might find on your travels. Used to be what the kings/queens of Scotland were crowned upon until the English stole it for theirs to sit on; if you say it that way, we'll have to assume you're interested in a debate about the role and future of the monarchy and will engage you.

I'll bite.

It's a "skone". Clue is in the fact it's spelt "scone", ie just substitute the K for a C. It it was a skon it would be called a scon.

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Rhymes with "gone"

Scone rhymes with stone

Scone. Anyone who says scone is wrong.

Definitely skone. Never heard anyone say skon. But I'm also on the west coast of the US, so that's likely a factor.

EDIT: Just noticed which community I was in. Oops.

I’m from the Derbyshire Dales and my partner is from West London and we’re both team skone, thankfully.

I've always said scone as in bone. My Aussie other half says skon so by default I end up saying "scone slash scon". I count this as being billingual.

That's easy. I pronounce it correctly.

I'm from the south of England but live on the east coast of Scotland and I pronounce it Skon

Grew up in Yorkshire where we will shorten anything but an "o" sound, which instead becomes very long. So scone rhymes "stone", with extra "o".

Slap bang in the blue area: https://brilliantmaps.com/scone-map/

It depends.

Scone rhymes with gone, much to the annoyanve of my partner who rhymes it with stone.

I grew up in the west midlands in a 'skone' household, but have since moved to Scotland and live with a scottish person who accuses me of being posh if I pronounce it that way. I generally use 'skon' now in the interests of domestic harmony. I do draw the line at 'skoon' though; that's just wrong.

Didn't think we'd be getting to the drama quite so soon!

I'm in the south west and I say it like 'cone' with an s at the start. I view the other way as being posh, but oddly enough it's the other way around for people in other parts of the country.

One of the things I love about the UK is the diversity in terms of accents, it's so rich

I'm a commoner, so it's Scon for me! As humans we tend to cut out words and letters due to laziness, or to put it positively, to save time 😂.

For me, I pronounce it as cone with an s at the start. Whereas my parents pronounce it as con with an s at the start.

Scone makes more sense then scon, purely by spelling, if it was scon then it would be spelt "scon".

Easy, it's Skone until you eat it, then it's Skon.

Easy, it's Skone until you eat it, then it's Skon.

Easy, it's Skone until you eat it, then it's Skon.