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Originally Posted by Laurinquë
COMMON SENSE!
To my (American) knowledge scones are sugary things usually involving fruit; often in the shape of a 45-45-90 triangle. Our 'biscuits' are cardboard covered in lard . . . excuse me, they are flakey spheres of carbohydrate. Or something like that. I have a low opinion of most of them, save for the ones TGEW's mother makes. In short, scones are sugared; 'biscuits' are not.
You call biscuits 'cookies'? Whaaat? Every British language book I have ever read calls these things them biscuits. But I think I would trust a real Brit more than a book.
But let's not get too off topic now . . .  |
I do not know of this 'common sense' you speak of. It is Elvish to me.
Apparently there are a lot of books on Britain that are off in some way or another. We've found a lot, seemingly.
I am not off topic, see:
Alaskamoot was fun. We talked about our Anglophilia and I think we enlightened
Lottie.
