"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 12/28/2013 5:04 PM, Ophelia wrote:
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>>
>> "Nancy Young" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> 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
>
> I've always said 'scons' but written scones.

Aye but you are one of us ...


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