strange_complex | Another pronunciation poll, this time about scones

It's confusing being a Midlander sometimes (for those unaware, I grew up in Birmingham).

I personally have the most terrible trouble with long and short 'a's in words like 'bath', 'glass', 'last' and so on, and can often be caught changing from one to the other in the middle of a sentence. Faced one day at a bus-stop in Reading with a car displaying the logo for a driving school called 'Fast Pass', my brain simply went into meltdown, and I had no idea how to read it: 'Faast Paass'? 'Fast Paass'? 'Faast Pass'? Or 'Fast Pass'?

In fact, I am so confused that I sometimes involve words which shouldn't be part of this in the whole muddle. Recently, I received a note at work telling me I had a parcel to collect, and when I went to ask one of the secretaries for it, I found myself asking for my 'passel'.

But I digress from the real issue at stake: scones.

While my sister was staying with me over the weekend, we discovered over the course of lunch on Monday that I pronounce the word with a long 'o' (so that it sounds like 'skoan'), while she pronounces it with a short 'o') (so that is sounds like 'skon'). This surprised me, since we both grew up in the same family and in the same area, but she explained that when she had moved to the South, everyone had laughed at her accent, so she had changed her pronunciation of some words, 'scone' included. This then surprised me even more, because I had always thought of 'skoan' as the southern pronunciation, and 'skon' as the northern.

Perhaps this is to be explained by the fact that her reference to moving 'South' actually meant she had moved to East London, where I can believe 'skon' might be more prevalent. Meanwhile, I, too, have broadly moved South (apart from the bit where I came to Belfast), yet 'skoan' seems to have fitted right in in both Bristol and Oxford. (Or if it hasn't, I haven't cared enough to notice).

In any case, I now want to check up on where each pronunciation is most common with the help of you, gentle readers. I know that both are in use: but where does each prevail? Tell me which bits of Britain you think are busy eating skoans, and which parts are happily munching on skons instead.

[Poll #386998]
Apologies, incidentally, to the good people of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland for not providing the option to further subdivide your (our?) regions: I'm only allowed a maximum of 15 options for this type of poll question, it transpires, so you will have to comment if you think different rules apply in different parts of your country. Comments on the typical pronunciation in English-speaking countries are, of course, also welcome.