Finally it’s been revealed how to say scone

It is an argument that has led to many a fiery debate across the table at afternoon tea. 
Is it scone (like gone) or scone (like bone)?

Despite a lot of people clearly caring a great deal, no one, it seems, has ever been able to decide.

Undated family handout photo of devoted couple Ray and Jessie Lorrison from South Shields, who have been together for 70 years and will now be allowed to stay in the same residential home following a social media campaign by their family, South Tyneside Council  has said. 

PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday November 1, 2016. Mr Lorrison, who is 95 and who has Alzheimer's Disease, has been staying at Westoe Grange Care Home, while his 88-year-old wife has been treated in hospital following a fall. Their family had said it was disgusting that the couple would not be allowed to be together once Mrs Lorrison was well enough to leave hospital. She had been expected to return to the marital home and would receive daily visits from carers. Their grandson Lee Bates started an online petition urging the council to think again, and by Tuesday lunchtime more than 20,000 people had signed it. See PA story SOCIAL Couple.

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Couple who have been together for 70 years win battle to stay in same home
That is until now.
YouGov, also known for its election polls, has produced new research that might once and for all settle the debate.

The study suggests that, in fact, scone (as in gone), is the mostly popularly used pronunciation and favoured by more than 51% of the population.
The bone pronunciation is used by around four in ten people.

Which doesn’t condemn one as right or wrong, but it does reveal where the majority vote lies.