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LONDON -- Britain has had to make several deeply difficult decisions over the last couple of years -- who should win the General Election,Canada Brexit, etc. -- but there is one raging debate that the nation will never be able to agree on.

How the hell do you pronounce the word "scone"? Does it rhyme with "gone", or "moan"?

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This is obviously an age-old debate, but it's been kicked off again recently by a nationwide poll carried out by YouGov.

Here's what the results revealed.

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So overall "Scone as in 'gone'" just edged it. But what all those numbers really add up to is the fact that we're never, ever going to agree, and it's probably time we just accepted it.

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The YouGov poll was shared on the r/unitedkingdom subreddit, where it quickly began drumming up some heated debate.

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There was also some confusion about the numbers.

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Let's be honest: even if a law was passed and we were all made to pronounce it a certain way under penalty of being force-fed scones to the point of explosion, we'd still be arguing about it.

We can't even agree on the correct way to eat them:

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Scones: so delicious, yet so controversial.

BONUS: How do you pronounce La Croix?

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