I saw this on Mastodon posted by @infobeautiful@vis.social and figured that it was appropriate for this community and absolutely not controversial in any way shape or form.
Option 3: Upsetting all of the English speaking world by pronouncing it to rhyme with pony.
As an American I wasn't even aware there was a divide in the pronunciation of scone. I think pretty much all Americans pronounce it to rhyme with cone.
That's a mf biscuit
Oh christ here we go again.
If I'm reading this correctly it's saying about 1 in 4 people in Dublin pronounce it like "gone" and that is absolutely false. Never once have I ever heard that pronunciation here.
CONE GANG!
edit: I'd be curious how other English speaking countries pronounce it.
Reading through replies it seems Americans are cone heads while Aussies are gone. Fascinating.
The bottom of that map is more orange than I was expecting. I'm surprised at the blue patch north of England. I always associated cone scone with the posher south.
Thought this looked familiar
That picture looks like an American biscuit. We put white sausage gravy on top and call it "biscuits and gravy."
This is interesting. In Australia we only ever pronounce it rhyming with gone.
There are some pretty sharp divisions in Ireland it seems. Bonniconlon looks to be holding out as a 'gone' stronghold in the top corner of Mayo for example.
Where's my underappreciated, but definitely real "cone rhymes with gone, but not with scone" gang?
And there's the place, Scone.
Quite interesting that there's a north/south split in Yorkshire. Anyone from there able to confirm if that's a divide that applies in other less important fields than scones?
If gone and cone ryme how do you process this map?
Fascinating.
I grew up in the green section in North East England and can assure you no one says it like "cone"
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