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Janet

In article >,
says...
>
> 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.

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Janet UK