Re: British v. American Vocabulary (Update)


Wed, 13 Sep 1995 19:19:34 GMT

In <42te75$2us@bud.peinet.pe.ca>, tbarrie@peinet.pe.ca (Trevor Barrie) writes:
>In article <42n0na$jg4@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, jzahn@aol.com (JZahn) says:
>
>>American British
>>-------------- -----------------
>>cookie biscuit
>>biscuit scone
>
>Just to take this one step further, what do the British call the
>things that I call "scones"? "Cookies", perhaps?

Americans don't generally use the word "scone". When they do,
they use it in the British sense. But most Americans, looking at
a scone, would call it a "biscuit", because it's very close to
an American biscuit. Similarly, someone from the UK would call
an American biscuit a "scone".