Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2016-11-02 4:35 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>
>>>> If they wanted it to be pronounced scon by everyone, they should have
>>>> left off the e.
>>>
>>> Yes, it should be gon from common usage ASAP.
>>
>> Exception to prove the rule. The fact is, people say scone because
>> that's how it's how it's spelled. Unfortunately that doesn't stop
>> people from saying datta.
>>
>
> People say what? scone (like gone) or scone (like stone)? I can tell
> you that we had the fairly often when I was a kid. My mother baked them
> and both my grandmothers made them. My maternal grandmother was of
> mostly Irish and Scottish blood and my paternal grandmother was from the
> Nottinghamshire/Sheffield area of England. They all pronounced it
> rhyming with gone. Here we are years later and people who never grew
> up with nice freshly made scones(gone) are buying those super sweetened
> things in Starbucks and calling them scones (stones) because they don't
> know any better.

here you go - you blind men take a look at this elephant

http://www.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.cam.a..._with_gone.jpg