Someone’s plotted how the whole country pronounces ‘scone’ and it’s the best map you’ll see this week
We are grateful to @bigmonsterlove for sharing this thing of beauty, the ‘great scone map of the United Kingdom and Ireland’.
https://twitter.com/bigmonsterlove/status/1040653117006798849
It is, it really is.
And these people loved it as much as we did.
Some great and extremely important research has gone on here. And I’m not being sarcastic. This, after Brexit, might be the most hotly debated subject in the English speaking world. https://t.co/IBCxf9zEzA
— Daniel Stewart (@dnstewart67) September 16, 2018
Glad to see Oldham firmly in the correct blue bit of the map. https://t.co/1hpExxMgKZ
— Brian Cox (@ProfBrianCox) September 16, 2018
As useful an answer to the question ‘where does the North begin?’ as there is: the place where scone is pronounced correctly. https://t.co/iQ2N6uoTAP
— alexmassie (@alexmassie) September 16, 2018
I've just discovered why, despite coming from Kent, I've always pronounced "scone" to rhyme with "cone". My mother's parents hailed from Derbyshire. It's how she pronounced it, presumably learned from her parents. https://t.co/oQpIbnAVUK
— Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola (@Frances_Coppola) September 16, 2018
How can so many people be so wrong? My Clare and Longford parents taught me the correct pronunciation “scone” (like cone) https://t.co/KsPpdYEdJB
— Aidan O’Sullivan (@AidanOSulliva15) September 14, 2018
yeah, but next I want a map on how they pronounce “gone”. https://t.co/UN0gfiGg4J
— Ruth Nic Hata Risteard (@RuthieFizz) September 14, 2018
Now all we need is one illustrating different regions’ answer to the question: jam or cream (butter) first? Jam, obviously.