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Macaroon Or Macaron?

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naomi24 | 23:00 Wed 04th Mar 2015 | Food & Drink
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Until watching ‘Bake-off’, I’d never heard anyone say Macaron instead of Macaroon. Is it a north/south thing?
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This is getting confused. One product, two different pronunciations. I just wondered if any other northerner calls a 'macaroon' a 'macaron', as whatshisname does.
What is a bannock?

To me its a type of pancake, to a friend its an oatcake!
...and to me it's a currant loaf. Different areas, different meanings. To me a teacake is a round flat bun with currants, whilst in Scotland it's a chocolate- covered marshmallow biscuit.
I've just taken a look at the OED website.

'Macaron' isn't recognised at all, except for a historic reference from Chamber's Cyclopaedia of 1753 ("Macaron: the name of a sort of vermicelli, a paste made of flour and water, and formed into the shape of the barrel of a quill, or the guts of small fowl") and an even older reference from the Dictionary of French and English Tongues of 1611 ("Macarons: little Fritter-like Bunnes, or thicke Losenges, compounded of Sugar, Almonds, Rosewater, and Muske").
Also from the OED:
"Bannock: The name, in Scotland and north of England, of a form in which home-made bread is made; usually unleavened, of large size, round or oval form, and flattish, without being as thin as ‘scon’ or oat-cake. In Scotland, bannocks are usually of barley- or pease-meal, but may be of wheaten flour; in some parts a large fruit cake or bun of the same shape is called a currant-bannock. In north of England the name is sometimes given to oat- or haver-bread, when made thicker and softer than an oat-cake; but local usage varies".
I had never come across the word macaron before (in English usage) until this thread.
Anyone outside NE England know what a stotty (stottie) cake is?

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