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Old 21-10-2017, 10:07 PM #1
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Are any of these inaccurate?
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YOU CALL COOKIES BISCUITS? Then what do you call a biscuit?

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YOU CALL COOKIES BISCUITS? Then what do you call a biscuit?
they're scones aren't they?
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YOU CALL COOKIES BISCUITS? Then what do you call a biscuit?
A biscuit is like a Jammie Dodger or Custard Cream. A cookie is like a chocolate chip cookie if you catch my drift?
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also chips are the big fat ones and fries are the skinny ones that you get from maccies
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In Ireland we call trousers pants as well but all the others are the same as the UK
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I say literally everything on the right side. A few on the UK side I've never even heard of before / are shocking to me lol.
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I say literally everything on the right side. A few on the UK side I've never even heard of before / are shocking to me lol.
Which ones?
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A biscuit is like a Jammie Dodger or Custard Cream. A cookie is like a chocolate chip cookie if you catch my drift?
I think I get it @ custard cream but that'd still be a cookie in the US.
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Biscuits and cookies are different.

Custard creams or a Digestive is a biscuit whereas Maryland, Oreos or anything that's round with chocolate chips a cookie.

We don't call everything a biscuit in the same way Americans do with cookie.
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Biscuits and cookies are different.

Custard creams or a Digestive is a biscuit whereas Maryland, Oreos or anything that's round with chocolate chips a cookie.

We don't call everything a biscuit in the same way Americans do with cookie.
Oreos are quite blatantly not cookies... they are biscuits...
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I say literally everything on the right side. A few on the UK side I've never even heard of before / are shocking to me lol.
Oh also we don't call knickers/undies pants
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Oreos are quite blatantly not cookies... they are biscuits...
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These (and similar variations) are cookies... anything else (including oreos! ) is a biscuit.
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Oreos are quite blatantly not cookies... they are biscuits...
I agree, I'd only call a chocolate chip cookie a cookie

I had American biscuits with gravy in the states, they're delicious
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Which ones?
Lorry (although when I think about it now I've heard it before), 'rubbish bin' - I didn't know rubbish was literally a substitute for trash/garbage in the UK lol, courgette & spanner I've literally never heard before, and gas = petrol you'd never really hear that in the US although it makes sense and a few gas stations do go by the name of "___ Petrol or Petroleum"

Also, you'd call this thing a torch?
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Oh also we don't call knickers/undies pants
Oh ok, yeah this one was really odd to me as well.
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Lorry (although when I think about it now I've heard it before), 'rubbish bin' - I didn't know rubbish was literally a substitute for trash/garbage in the UK lol, courgette & spanner I've literally never heard before, and gas = petrol you'd never really hear that in the US although it makes sense and a few gas stations do go by the name of "___ Petrol or Petroleum"

Also, you'd call this thing a torch?
Torch is so much easier than flash light
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Oh ok, yeah this one was really odd to me as well.
They do in the UK but not Ireland. I would also say mom rather than mum like the US, mum sounds very English to me
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