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Big Question. Scone pronounced to rhyme with Gone or with Drone?
Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Jun 21, 2010
To my ear, skown sounds like someone trying to sound posh... 
I have always pronounced it Skon, and it should be prepared thusly: Butter, Clotted Cream, Jam, Mouth. In that order.
Big Question. Scone pronounced to rhyme with Gone or with Drone?
Not the monkey - Skreeeeeeeeeeeee Posted Jun 21, 2010
My Grandma was laughed at when she arrived in rhymes-with-gone Liverpool pronouncing it with her South Welsh rhymes-with-drone. She wasn't posh, though.
The Betjeman example above (if it was he)...it has to be remember that Betjeman was an apalling social climber who was at pains to hide his lowly background.
Big Question. Scone pronounced to rhyme with Gone or with Drone?
2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Jun 21, 2010
I couldn't care less how its proounced.... I tend to use both at differnt times, depending on the inflection given to any proceding and preceeding words... The main thing oughta be... why havne't I got any here now 
Big Question. Scone pronounced to rhyme with Gone or with Drone?
Icy North Posted Jun 21, 2010
Does anyone here say 'bakewell pudding' rather than 'bakewell tart'? And if so, how far are you from Bakewell?
Big Question. Scone pronounced to rhyme with Gone or with Drone?
MonkeyS- all revved up with no place to go Posted Jun 21, 2010
A proper bakewell pudding doesn't have all that crappy fondant and the inedible glace cherry on it. They are very nice warm. About 100 miles or so.
Back to the original question, I've always said "scone" like gone. And I've never been refused service!!
Been asked to leave a few places after I've ordered though....
Big Question. Scone pronounced to rhyme with Gone or with Drone?
Lanzababy - Guide Editor Posted Jun 21, 2010
yup - pudding, and about 10 miles away 
Big Question. Scone pronounced to rhyme with Gone or with Drone?
Not the monkey - Skreeeeeeeeeeeee Posted Jun 21, 2010
Bakewell puddings are an entirely different species altogether.
200 miles.
Big Question. Scone pronounced to rhyme with Gone or with Drone?
Sho - employed again! Posted Jun 21, 2010
Bakewell pudding here - we're in another country...
Big Question. Scone pronounced to rhyme with Gone or with Drone?
Icy North Posted Jun 21, 2010
So you're all puddings are you? I wonder when the tarts will arrive?
Big Question. Scone pronounced to rhyme with Gone or with Drone?
Lanzababy - Guide Editor Posted Jun 21, 2010
Big Question. Scone pronounced to rhyme with Gone or with Drone?
Sho - employed again! Posted Jun 21, 2010
She is a TART!
The only tarts I like are jam tarts. Or... did anyone else used to have Manchester Tart for school pudding?
Big Question. Scone pronounced to rhyme with Gone or with Drone?
Lanzababy - Guide Editor Posted Jun 21, 2010
Yes, me, but strangely not in Manchester 
Big Question. Scone pronounced to rhyme with Gone or with Drone?
KB Posted Jun 21, 2010
They were here 6 posts before yours, Icy. 
Big Question. Scone pronounced to rhyme with Gone or with Drone?
2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Jun 21, 2010
Its a tart... definately a Tart... never heard it called a pudding... and I've no idea where bakewell is... is it in east anglia somwhere? probably not a million miles from me in that case... I'm sure I drove through bakewell once, in the back of a van with no windows but which had a matress in it... I think I was on LSD at the time though 
and we never stopped to try the local tarts
Big Question. Scone pronounced to rhyme with Gone or with Drone?
Not the monkey - Skreeeeeeeeeeeee Posted Jun 21, 2010
There's a story in my family about the time my Grandma and Grandpop were in a restaurant with another couple. After the main course, she asked,
'Two ice creams, please - and a couple of tarts for the gentlemen.'
Big Question. Scone pronounced to rhyme with Gone or with Drone?
Not the monkey - Skreeeeeeeeeeeee Posted Jun 21, 2010
>>I've no idea where bakewell is... is it in east anglia somwhere?
Derbyshire.
Big Question. Scone pronounced to rhyme with Gone or with Drone?
2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Jun 21, 2010
Ahh! Derbyshire... that would explain it then... I probably have been there... spent quite a while in Derbyshire... But not necessarily very sober so its all a bit hazy... until about 2004 its all a bit hazy really... mind, didn't get much better then really.. 
ooo I'm getting it confused with teh place which I'm pretty* sure is in East anglia where the pork pies come from... I got held hostage there some time round about 1998/9 
Big Question. Scone pronounced to rhyme with Gone or with Drone?
KB Posted Jun 21, 2010
No, the come from the pigs. Although I once had some kosher ones that were just like the real deal. It made me wonder whether the "real" ones contain any pork at all...
Big Question. Scone pronounced to rhyme with Gone or with Drone?
2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Jun 21, 2010
Mmmm.... pork... bacon ... chops... suasges... porkpies.... steak.... its all good 
damn... I'm hungry now...
Big Question. Scone pronounced to rhyme with Gone or with Drone?
Not the monkey - Skreeeeeeeeeeeee Posted Jun 21, 2010
You really *are* lost. The pies are from Melton Mowbray which is in Leicestershire, not East Angular.
Wheras faggots are from the Midlands. Generally.
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- 41: Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune (Jun 21, 2010)
- 42: Not the monkey - Skreeeeeeeeeeeee (Jun 21, 2010)
- 43: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Jun 21, 2010)
- 44: Icy North (Jun 21, 2010)
- 45: MonkeyS- all revved up with no place to go (Jun 21, 2010)
- 46: Lanzababy - Guide Editor (Jun 21, 2010)
- 47: Not the monkey - Skreeeeeeeeeeeee (Jun 21, 2010)
- 48: Sho - employed again! (Jun 21, 2010)
- 49: Icy North (Jun 21, 2010)
- 50: Lanzababy - Guide Editor (Jun 21, 2010)
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- 52: Lanzababy - Guide Editor (Jun 21, 2010)
- 53: KB (Jun 21, 2010)
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- 55: Not the monkey - Skreeeeeeeeeeeee (Jun 21, 2010)
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