Sunday, April 24, 2005, 14:31 GMT
**Well, that's settled!**
Well, DEBORAH....acording to Mrs Mills it is....but that's her style as you can see. The very name of the Supplement you read from is called Style.
Actually, the name SCONE is Scottish in that it is the name of a small village in Perthshire, Central Scotland. It is pronounced quite differently: ['Sk-Un] ...the vowel sound being the Scottish one almost the same as the "U" sound in the French "du" or "mur". Scone was actually the former site of the old Pictish capital and the stone on which medieval Scottish kings were crowned (the Stone of Scone pron. ['Sk-Un]!) was situated in Scone.
The Stone of Scone was "stolen" from its rightful place by the pillaging English King Edward I in 1296 and removed to Westminster Abbey, in London. It is still there to be seen, but many Scots still think it should be back in Scone. On Christmas Day 1950 it was somehow removed (stolen back!) from the Abbey by Scottish patriots and returned to Scone Palace, but of course it was eventually returned to its exiled place in Westminster Abbey.
I think ADAM should do something about this!...like demanding of Tony Blair that the Stone of Scone be restored to its rightful place back in Scotland and not languish in an English Abbey to be gawped at by millions of tourists in a "foreign land"!
Well, DEBORAH....acording to Mrs Mills it is....but that's her style as you can see. The very name of the Supplement you read from is called Style.
Actually, the name SCONE is Scottish in that it is the name of a small village in Perthshire, Central Scotland. It is pronounced quite differently: ['Sk-Un] ...the vowel sound being the Scottish one almost the same as the "U" sound in the French "du" or "mur". Scone was actually the former site of the old Pictish capital and the stone on which medieval Scottish kings were crowned (the Stone of Scone pron. ['Sk-Un]!) was situated in Scone.
The Stone of Scone was "stolen" from its rightful place by the pillaging English King Edward I in 1296 and removed to Westminster Abbey, in London. It is still there to be seen, but many Scots still think it should be back in Scone. On Christmas Day 1950 it was somehow removed (stolen back!) from the Abbey by Scottish patriots and returned to Scone Palace, but of course it was eventually returned to its exiled place in Westminster Abbey.
I think ADAM should do something about this!...like demanding of Tony Blair that the Stone of Scone be restored to its rightful place back in Scotland and not languish in an English Abbey to be gawped at by millions of tourists in a "foreign land"!