On 12/28/2013 5:39 PM, Ophelia wrote:
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> "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
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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
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>> I've always said 'scons' but written scones.
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> Aye but you are one of us ...
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LOL Sometimes I think it's very funny. I've never been to Scotland.
Most likely never will. But I do remember the way my grandmother talked
and little phrases my mother must have gotten from her. They stick in my
mind. Ye ken?

Jill