Question for people from the UK

I am an ignorant yank who needs help.

How do you pronounce SCONE?

Does it rhyme with stone?
Or does it rhyme with fawn?
Or...?

Thanks for your help. I eat them all the time but feel silly for not knowing how to say the word properly. I usually rhyme it with stone.

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SW-User

It's a regional thing. It rhymes with cone in the south and gone in the North.

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DrWatson · 70-79, M

@SW-User That is incredible. The definitive statement on the pronunciation of "scone"! 😄

SW-User

@DrWatson Somebody had a lot of time lol

DrWatson · 70-79, M

@SW-User Travelling from place to place, ordering scones everywhere -- all in the name of science!

"I'll have one of those, uh, what do you call them?"

SW-User

@DrWatson I'd volunteer for that job. Now how do we pronounce fish and chips 🤔

Dshhh · M

@SW-User AWESOME MAP!