Sir, – Scones nowadays are usually extremely large in size so that the Belfast description of them as “wee buns” is surely inaccurate (Letters, October 11th).
My now deceased aunt, who grew up in Derry, always described nuns as “wee nuns”, even when they were almost six feet tall and built proportionately. – Yours, etc,
FINBAR KEARNS,
Piercestown,
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Co Wexford.
A chara, – In over 10 years living in the Edinburgh area, I have only ever heard “scone” rhyme with “gone”. But I’d be wary of taking advice from the Scots; just up the road there is Scone Palace, pronounced “skoon”. – Is mise,
JOE McLAUGHLIN,
Bonnyrigg,
Midlothian,
Scotland.
Sir, – Given the unceasing reduction in the size of bought scones, with the hapless quarter-cherry inserted in the side, should they now be called scoins? – Yours, etc,
EUGENE TANNAM,
Firhouse,
Dublin 24.
