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Asked: April 19, 20222022-04-19T02:02:32+01:00 2022-04-19T02:02:32+01:00In: Language

Why are the British confused about us calling bread rolls “biscuits” when they call bread rolls “puddings”?

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(Why I darest say, they darest not get offended when they so indeed have examples that violate their own use and nomenclature!) IE: pudding as a specific dessert, puddings as a general term for desserts. Calling something a Yorkshire pudding that is not a pudding and not a dessert.

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      John Peter
      2018-04-19T02:07:32+01:00Added an answer on April 19, 2018 at 2:07 am

      Most British people understand that the English and American English have drifted slightly away, so that we have different definitions of words.

      Now, to the British people who insists our naming is incorrect, they need to understand that our language is not the same. Please don’t try to tell me that we speak the same language, because in all honesty we don’t. However, our languages are incredibly similar.

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    2. Barry Carter
      2018-04-19T02:07:37+01:00Added an answer on April 19, 2018 at 2:07 am

      Calling a bread roll a “biscuit” really takes the biscuit. The word comes from French, meaning “twice cooked” (bis – cuit). Are bread rolls twice cooked? Of course modern biscuits aren’t twice cooked either but they were originally.

      As far as I know no Briton calls a bread roll a pudding, though we do call them lots of other things in different parts of the country, e.g. Baps, Stotties, Buns, Rolls, Bin Lids, Cobs, Batches, Bulkies, Barms, Teacakes, Butties, Nudgers and Blaas (not a complete list).

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    3. James Wane
      2018-04-19T02:07:27+01:00Added an answer on April 19, 2018 at 2:07 am

      We aren’t, and we don’t. You are misinformed.

      In Britain, the word ‘biscuit’ means a hard baked cookie, like a graham cracker. Since this is the normal use of this word in the UK, we don’t automatically think of the plain scone-type baked goods for which Americans use the word ‘biscuit’. US English is a different dialect of English, and there are many words which have different meanings from U.K. English (jumper, braces, suspenders, tap etc.)

      What on earth makes you think we call bread rolls ‘puddings’? In the U.K., pudding is any dessert, not just the blancmange-stuff which Americans use that word for. It is correct in the U.K. to say “I’m having apple pie for pudding.”.

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    4. Nuel Teacher
      2022-05-20T15:19:08+01:00Added an answer on May 20, 2022 at 3:19 pm

      We all had different colonial masters which taught is different ways to everyone….
      Maybe they were taught in that manner

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    5. Emmy
      2022-05-09T13:15:48+01:00Added an answer on May 9, 2022 at 1:15 pm

      I don’t know

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    6. Miespee
      2022-05-09T15:17:55+01:00Added an answer on May 9, 2022 at 3:17 pm

      Nice question

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    7. Daniel Albert
      2022-05-09T17:25:49+01:00Added an answer on May 9, 2022 at 5:25 pm

      I have no idea

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    8. Mc Phocus
      2022-05-09T21:08:12+01:00Added an answer on May 9, 2022 at 9:08 pm

      Ok

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    9. Wisdom Akpan
      2022-05-09T23:40:11+01:00Added an answer on May 9, 2022 at 11:40 pm

      Every tribe have ways of calling anything

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    10. Muyiwa000 Student
      2022-05-10T00:28:56+01:00Added an answer on May 10, 2022 at 12:28 am

      Am just confused oo

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