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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ElwoodBlues · M

Disclaimer: I'm not from the UK although I've visited several times.

[quote]The correct pronunciation of the British afternoon tea staple, scone, is an age-old dispute.

The UK’s leading etiquette expert, William Hanson, has set the record straight on many occasions but here is his answer once and for all.

Following etiquette, the correct pronunciation of scone is ‘skon’, to rhyme with ‘gone’, rather than ‘skone’ to rhyme with ‘bone’.[/quote]
https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/how-correctly-pronounce-scone-like-19553604

Scotland had a stone referred to as the "Coronation Stone" and also the "Stone of Scone"

In 1296 England’s King Edward I took the stone from Scotland to London; in 1996 Prime Minister John Major returned it. https://www.history.com/news/what-is-the-stone-of-scone

It is also pronounced ‘skon’, to rhyme with ‘gone’.