On 12/28/2013 4:41 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

> A scone is more like a biscuit in texture, but usually a little richer,
> and cut into wedge or diamonds shapes. They are usually served with jam
> and butter or clotted cream. There are a lot of scones being flogged
> these days that are loaded with sugar and often covered in icing, much
> different from the scones my English grandmother made... and hers did
> not rhyme with stones.

It's that e that makes it a long o, if they wanted a short o,
leave off the e.

nancy