Re: English oddities

dirk elzinga wrote:

> so I suppose that 'scone' is cognate with 'schoon'. But the only scone
> I know of is a pastry, which doesn't seem to fit into the set.
m-w.com thinks it's an actual borrowing, scone < Du. schoon[brood],
but they only say "perhaps".

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