| ▲ | drooopy 4 hours ago |
| Cookie vs biscuit, vacation vs holiday, gasoline vs petrol, etc, etc. |
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| ▲ | TiredOfLife 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Cookie and biscuit are two different things. Which two depends on country, but still two different things |
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| ▲ | NetMageSCW 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | The point is what in the Uk is called a biscuit in the US is called a cookie. Similarly for the other pairings. | | |
| ▲ | shagie 39 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Do ginger cats make the same biscuits as orange cats? Though, https://www.reddit.com/r/catsinpants/ works for both forms of English. | |
| ▲ | card_zero an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | This sense of biscuit persisted in US English for a long time. The National Biscuit Company (makers of oreos and fig newtons) only changed its name to Nabisco in 1931. The Kennedy Biscuit Company was subsumed by the New York Biscuit Company which merged with the American Biscuit Company to form the National Biscuit Company in 1898. Closes Wikipedia | |
| ▲ | venzaspa 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Cookies in the UK are a subset of biscuits, but not all biscuits are cookies. Do you not have any other types of biscuits (using the UK term) in the US? | | |
| ▲ | bensyverson an hour ago | parent [-] | | No. A biscuit is something entirely different in the US. We just have many types of cookies. |
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| ▲ | irishcoffee 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| FWIW, I believe petroleum is a synonym for crude oil. If you put it in your cars fuel tank, you'll have a bad time. Gasoline is made from petrolium. |
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| ▲ | cpburns2009 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I'm pretty sure petrol means gasoline not petroleum. | | |
| ▲ | RobotToaster an hour ago | parent [-] | | Petrol is technically just short for petroleum, which is latin for "rock oil" Gasoline is from gas + plus the chemical suffix "ol" short for the latin "oleum", and "ine" meaning "made of". | | |
| ▲ | delecti an hour ago | parent [-] | | But the etymology of a word doesn't prove that someone is using that word wrong, or people on both sides of the pond would have to start baking our biscuits a second time. |
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| ▲ | dylan604 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | petrol !== petroleum the confusion is solely in your reading comprehension skills and not in the GP's use of the words |
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