/'sgɔn/ or /'sgəʊn/

If Wikipedia is to be trusted (and I think it should), ‘…two-thirds of the British population pronounce it /'sgɔn/, rhyming with “con” and “John”, with the preference rising to 99% in the Scottish population. The rest pronounce it /'sgəʊn/, rhyming with “cone” and “Joan”.’

The Scottish in me wants to say /'sgɔn/ but I feel like I’d come across kind of haughty at Starbucks.

“Yeah, can I have one o’ dem der straaawberry scones.”

It’s hard to mesh the Chicaaago and the Scottish. But that’s my burden to bear, not yours. Of course, now that I am a master scone baker (I do not profess to be an expert, but my friends say that I am) why would I ever need to order a scone from Starbucks again?

the recipe: http://orangette.blogspot.com/2004/08/i-took-deep-breaths.html

notes: i made these once before, and no kidding, the strawberries make the dough messy! (i’ve made a couple versions of the scones with dry ingredients, and the dough is so easy to work with.) but it’s my opinion that the strawberry versions are superior to all the others i’ve tried. i just sliced up a couple strawberries and processed them into the dough. (this worked better than trying to incorporate them solely by kneading.) and i kind of like their knobby-ness. i sprinkled a little turbinado sugar on their tops after glazing too, to brilliant effect (if i do say so myself).

this has become a rather immodest post. sorry.