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[Internally Deformed]

Could care less makes no sense though.

 

[CiG]

American-English isn't entirely a creation of America, much of what is called an Americanism is also spoken in England.

 

[Phylactery]

Yeah, because people watch too much American TV and pick it up.

These same people don't know the difference between "your" and "you're" and "it's" and "its" and they try to use apostrophes to pluralise words so they don't count.

 

[Internally Deformed]

When English people refer to the feds I want to punch them in the face.

 

[CiG]

I'm talking pre-television here.

 

[CiG]

Random example: in America, scones are called biscuits and in England biscuits are hard, but in America hard biscuits are called cookies.

Well, Scotland uses biscuit the American way, because scones were once called biscuits in England, but it died out as the name for scones. Scotland retained the language.

 

[Internally Deformed]

Cookie:

Biscuit:

Scone:

We have every word, we just apply them to the correct articles.

 

[Phylactery]

So wait I'm confused, there's a lot of scones, biscuits and cookies in there which are all different things. If they call scones biscuits, what do they call scones?

 

[CiG]

@Internally Deformed cookie is an Americanism.

If by mere fact of usage by the English you deem it correct, why was it not correct before, when the English people called scones, biscuits?

So wait I'm confused, there's a lot of scones, biscuits and cookies in there which are all different things. If they call scones biscuits, what do they call scones?

Scones = biscuits.

 

[Phylactery]

But you call them biscuits? And you call all what we consider to be biscuits cookies, even though they are different things?

A biscuit is not a cookie here. A cookie is different.

 

[Krow]

There's no such thing as a scone in WV.

From the pictures Internally Deformed posted...

Literally:
Cookie
Cookie
Biscuit

 

[Internally Deformed]

But you call them biscuits? And you call all what we consider to be biscuits cookies, even though they are different things?

Exactly - we have both words, whereas they only have one.

 

[Phylactery]

So you do use scones, biscuits and cookies. You just use them wrong

 

[Krow]

This is what Americans consider scones:
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Where do you live at, out of curiosity?

Here that'd still be referred to as a biscuit.

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

Whatever bitch, you took our language and because you're so egotistical you decided that you can't just leave it the same and instead have to make changes. I lost all respect when I found out "gotten" was correct in American English. Sounds fucking stupid.

We changed the language? You're the ones who decided that all those R's were a pain to pronounce; Americans in places like New York and New England only started dropping them in imitation of you folks.

 

[CiG]

Jesus Christ this is melting my brain. Why are you English faggots against Americanisms yet you're fine with cookie, which is an Americanism created to describe hard biscuits?

 

[Internally Deformed]

Cookies are crumbly thick biscuits with chocolate/nut chips. Biscuits are biscuits, and scones and scones. I'm confused about what is confusing.

 

[Phylactery]

Well didn't the cookie (well what we consider cookies) come from America so when we started getting them over here we adopted the name? Since we're not arrogant enough to give it a new name or change its spelling. Just like we adopted words such as "bolognese".

 

[Internally Deformed]

Just like we adopted words such as "bolognese".

And altered it to the gorgeous Englishism "Spag Bol", lol.

 

[Krow]

Arrogance is probably more likely ignorance tbh. My family came to Ellis Island as "Immigrants from Iceland" somehow that butchered our family name to Ice.