It's scone not 'scon' alright!

JAYJO

Is it Clotted Cream or Clot head cream...

Kilgore

The skon/scone debate is tearing our country apart. We need a referendum or "People's Vote". The government can then go to the OED with a mandate for change.
Personally, I favour a compromise that should be acceptable to both sides.

Sckoanon

Bridgehouse

Kilgore said:

The skon/scone debate is tearing our country apart. We need a referendum or "People's Vote". The government can then go to the OED with a mandate for change.
Personally, I favour a compromise that should be acceptable to both sides.

Sckoanon

Is it a Vot or a Vote tho?

Kilgore

Bridgehouse said:

Kilgore said:

The skon/scone debate is tearing our country apart. We need a referendum or "People's Vote". The government can then go to the OED with a mandate for change.
Personally, I favour a compromise that should be acceptable to both sides.

Sckoanon

Is it a Vot or a Vote tho?

If it's any crumb of comfort, the terms are set out in the Maltloaf Compromise.

m_c

With all this debate about the baked item, what about the palace with the same spelling?

JAYJO

Is it a Biscuit or a Cake. Neither or is that Neither its  a Jaffa.

HAL9000

Not a case of right or wrong  - just regional variation (like baf or barth). Just that for some reason the scone thing seems to have a snobbery element to it.

Bridgehouse

HAL9000 said:

Not a case of right or wrong  - just regional variation (like baf or barth). Just that for some reason the scone thing seems to have a snobbery element to it.

D’you mean like garridge and gararge? 

I thought that was always stated as a north/south thing...?

crunchman

Bridgehouse said:

HAL9000 said:

Not a case of right or wrong  - just regional variation (like baf or barth). Just that for some reason the scone thing seems to have a snobbery element to it.

D’you mean like garridge and gararge? 

I thought that was always stated as a north/south thing...?

Not a North South thing.  More a rest of the country / posh South East thing.  I'm from Devon and we would never say gararge in the posh way.

Edit:  the scone (correct) vs scon thing does seem to be a regional thing though.

Philly_Q

m_c said:

With all this debate about the baked item, what about the palace with the same spelling?

That's neither skon nor skone, but skoon.  I think.

m_c

Philly_Q said:

m_c said:

With all this debate about the baked item, what about the palace with the same spelling?

That's neither skon nor skone, but skoon.  I think.

:-)
You're right. It's just one of many Scottish names that non-natives struggle with.

Alnico

Let's call the whole thing off !

grungebob

You’re wrong . 
Is it gon or gone!?

Grunfeld

ICBM said:

Philly_Q said:

Wow, I'm really glad @ICBM resuscitated this thread.

Sorry . I saw that map and I had to .

If nothing else it shows that the Scoaners are a deviant minority, as I always guessed...

How did I miss this thread?  Well, the paint is now dry...

That map explains how I got the "cone" version when everyone else round here does the gone variant.  Me mum was from county Clare in the west of Ireland.  Definitely not posh.  Whereas the part-time imaginary gf, (a contender for the poshest bird ever) reckons, "Doesn't matter what they're bloody called, too many carbs, can't eat 'em, are you trying to kill me?"