THESE are biscuits.
I don't give a damn what the Brits opinion on the matter is.
Yup, dont worry my friend. We will win like usual.
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Yup, dont worry my friend. We will win like usual.
This is something poors, bootblacks and guttersnipes mumble through their gruel. Not something a gentleman says.
Balderdash.
CrocMother
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The belittling of people with hoighty-toighty tippy typers is quite unsettling.
Honey Bunny
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This isn't a universal English thing. The heathens who pronounce it haitch are ridiculed there as well.
Similarly, I can't stand when Americans call whirlybirds 'ducks'.
THESE are biscuits.
I don't give a damn what the Brits opinion on the matter is.
A biscuit is any twice cooked bread product. So lots of things can accurately be called biscuits.
I can't stand it when Brits call whirlybirds "helicopters"
Nappuccino
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Is the category "Things that describe my penis?"
All of this.
Respectfully, a lot of this is based on misconceptions.
While Anglo-Saxon was a rhotic language, arhotacism developed well before the English colonized North America.
Furthermore, most American dialects were non-rhotic themselves until fairly recently. The American television accent (or more accurately American Midwestern accent) is somewhat new, and was not terribly pervasive until maybe 30 years ago. That and the influx of Irish and Scottish into the US is what has caused American English to develop into a rhotic language.
So I agree that until recently Americans and English sounded similar, but that's because both were non-rhotic, not because they were rhotic. Listen to old speeches by Roosevelt and other news reporters from WW2 - they speak non-rhotically.
Same. Has there aver been a 'sequel' to the "my face when Americans call" pic?
You mean it's not 'scown'?
THESE are biscuits.
I don't give a damn what the Brits opinion on the matter is.
I never ate one of these until i came to live in north america. Never saw one in my time in the UK.
They sure do look like scones but do not taste like them. Kinda like a crumbly, pastry-like bread roll. So im sure if we have a name for it.
Cookies are a type of biscuit - a hobnob for example, is not a cookie
Ignatz Mouse
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Time to pimp this again:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1592404944/?tag=neogaf0e-20
It's about grammar, not vocabulary, although it touches on that subject a little. And English and American grammar differ only very very slightly, as far as a I can tell.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1592404944/?tag=neogaf0e-20
It's about grammar, not vocabulary, although it touches on that subject a little. And English and American grammar differ only very very slightly, as far as a I can tell.
Soodanim
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The only thing that comes to mind is punctuation positioning. Apparently the norm regarding quotation marks and commas is include any following comma in the quote regardless of whether it's part of the quote or not "Like this," but over on this side of the pond we usually do it the more logical way by not including it as part of the quote "Like this", unless the quote contains punctuation.
hobblygobbly
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THESE are biscuits.
I don't give a damn what the Brits opinion on the matter is.
Well it's not just Britain but the entirety of Europe. As a European, that is NOT a biscuit. That is a scone sir.
THESE are biscuits.
I don't give a damn what the Brits opinion on the matter is.
Your missing some gravy on those biscuits.
helloresolven
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What does this even mean? As a European? Are you a native English speaker? If not, your opinion matters naught.
And to an American, that's definitely not a scone.
Aeriscloud
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THESE are biscuits.
I don't give a damn what the Brits opinion on the matter is.
Biscuit.
Thank you hobblygobbly. Your username sounds like a proper British word.
Hyperactivity
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On biscuits, having an Indian family in America makes things confusing
American biscuits are biscuits
Cookies like chocolate chip, macadamia nut, etc. are cookies
But stuff besides that definition of cookie that would pass for a biscuit in India are biscuits
Oh, and there is a difference between scones and biscuits
Biscuits are fluffier
This is a biscuit
These are biscuits
American biscuits are biscuits
Cookies like chocolate chip, macadamia nut, etc. are cookies
But stuff besides that definition of cookie that would pass for a biscuit in India are biscuits
Oh, and there is a difference between scones and biscuits
Biscuits are fluffier
These are biscuits
These are cookies
This is a biscuit
These are biscuits
Yeah, quotation punctuation is really confusing. Visually, I think the British system is more appealing, but both can lead to odd results.
For example:
The girl said, "Is that a cat?".
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The girl said, "Is that a cat"?
To me, the former is unparsimonious, but the later grammatically confusing because the sentence is a statement even if the subject is asking a question.
NintendoGal
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The article reminds me of how much I despise the fact that no one here in the US seems to know the difference between a goddamn cottage/shepherd's pie.
Except Alton Brown of course, but I expect that.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/shepherds-pie-recipe2.html
Except Alton Brown of course, but I expect that.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/shepherds-pie-recipe2.html
I haven't eaten yet today and this made my mouth water at the buttery, buttery goodness.
THESE are biscuits.
I don't give a damn what the Brits opinion on the matter is.
For all the British/Aussies calling these scones they taste entirely different. American biscuits are the best when they are swimming in gravy and/or filled with butter.
CarpeDeezNutz
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That's an odd name, I'd have called them chazzwazzas!
Ignatz Mouse
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I was referring to structural grammar, like word order, case, marking endings and such. The only difference I know of is that UK english will say things like "the crowd are going wild" and in the US it would be "the crowd is going wild."
Delta Assault
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...huh. So do they also say stuff like "The UK are great at drinking tea" and "The Royal Family are very private?"
there's no real consistency, but referring to the UK will always be singular
The Beatles, however, are a band
And because of teenage cultural cross-pollination on Tumblr, I've noticed English terms and slang starting to creep over here.
Soodanim
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I would definitely put the question mark inside, because it's part of the girl's sentence. Plus, putting it outside just makes it a grammatically imperfect sentence.
I see. I suppose that's something that's so minor that it gets lost in the sea in misused forms of there/their/they're and the myriad other common mistakes on the Internet. Thinking about that example in particular, I would say that "is" is the prevalent choice here in the UK, too. It is interesting though, I've never thought about whether or not it's correct to refer to groups as singular entities. I think I tend to do it. Actually, no. It's probably context based and I mix it up.
Shouldn't The Beatles always be referred to as multiple people because of the plural name?
You could go either way with a band like The Who. I'd probably go with are rather than is.
How else do you tell the difference between C "cee" and Z "zee"? I always say Zed, but English is my second language.
They sound different, just like B and T.
Delta Assault
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They sound completely different, so that helps.
TheRedSnifit
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This is amazing.
Is that like new breaking development in historical linguistics?
I mean it's a dynamic field no doubt, but the rise of non rhotacism in English is pretty well understood and not all that contested in the field.
Also, FDR speaks in mid-atlantic dialect, which was a cultivated artificial dialect created by American elites for social stratification. It was the inferiority complex that the US has with England that caused to be non-rhotic, not because normal people in America were talking like that.
Rest
All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
Sconne vs. scone always seemed a little silly to me. But a biscuit is certainly not a scone. Their texture and taste are different.
Rest
All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
Jam and jelly are two different things. Why you guys call gello jelly I'll never know.
Garbage tier biscuits are made with lard, the genuine article is made with butter.
Because it's jelly.
Rest
All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
But it's gello.
John Rabbit
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holy shit, i haven't heard the East Coast "O" this severely since i last saw my father's cousins from Dundalk, MD. an entire segment of my family sounds exactly like this.
Delta Assault
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Yes.
MR BLACKMAGIK
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THESE are biscuits.
I don't give a damn what the Brits opinion on the matter is.
Yeah that one always annoyed me. That and "crisps".
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My guess is that it happened because of our strong association between the "Top Ramen" brand name and instant noodles.
See, scones do have a meaning in the US:
They're pretty much the same thing except their triangular and have fruit in them typically.
In Utah this is a scone:
Similar to a Mexican soppapilla .Usually served with honey-butter and sometimes syrup.
"Nutty-gum and fruit spleggings" is the best things I've ever read.
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