"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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> 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.

Well, we said 'scons' and written they were scones
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