Join the great scone debate: Is it pronounced scohne or scon?

Leave your prejudices at the door, this is serious business.

RIGHT, LET’S NOT pussyfoot around the issue. What’s it gonna be, scon or scohne?

We’re talking about this, a scone.

Cheese scones

Scones in Saundersfoot

Cream tea

Scone, cream and tea

Mmm. Anyone got any scones?

Lick_your_lip

Anyway, what do you call them? First, we put the feelers out.

There were fighters for both sides

@dailyedge @KerrygoldIRL scone as in cone!! #TheOnlyWay
— Carla (@carladoc1994) April 23, 2014

Carla O'Doherty / Twitter

@dailyedge @KerrygoldIRL I'm probably alone on this one but SCON sounds stale and SCOHNE sounds fressshhhh to me ;)
— Niall O’Keeffe (@NiallOK) April 23, 2014

Niall O'Keeffe / Twitter

But for many, scon was deemed notiony

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Ultimately, it’s down to you, the scone-devouring Irish public.

How do you pronounce ‘scone’?

Poll Results:

Scohne, shouldn't even be a question (1545)

Please. It's Scon (272)

Biscuit, I think I'm American (12)

Please. It's Scon
Scohne, shouldn't even be a question
Biscuit, I think I'm American

In next week’s scone instalment we’ll be asking if your granny’s scones were better than our grannies’ scones.

Not really though. We ALL know the answer to that one.

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