On 12/28/2013 5:04 PM, Ophelia wrote:
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> "Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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>> On 12/28/2013 4:41 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> It's that e that makes it a long o, if they wanted a short o,
>> leave off the e.
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> Well, we said 'scons' and written they were scones

I've always said 'scons' but written scones.

Jill