On 12/28/2013 5:11 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2013-12-28 5:04 PM, Ophelia wrote:
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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
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> My English grandmother used to make them and she called them 'scons' my
> other grandmother, mostly Irish and Scottish made them and called them
> scones. It is relatively recent that they started appearing in coffee
> shops, usually very sweet and over iced and they call them 'scones'. I
> always figured they were not British and/or had not been raised with
> 'scons' so they just didn't know any better.

Dialects very from place to place. Scons, scones. Once they left the
British Isles scones wound up in coffee shops in North America.
Probably right next to the doughnuts.

The scones I remember were like a bit like buttermilk biscuits, except
cream of tartar was involved. No currants, no raisins, no dried fruit
of any kind. There was probably a pinch of sugar in the dough. Grandma
shaped scones into triangles and baked them on a well greased cast iron
griddle. I still have and use Grandma's cast iron griddle.

Jill