The UK don't really have the american style "biscuit" or "biscuits and gravy". The closest thing to it would either be a crusty bread roll, or a scone (or a fusion of the two).
The Americans have got this one badly wrong, however. The word "biscuit" is french, and comes from the latin "bis coctus" (bis=twice, coctus=cook). The literal translation in both french and latin means "cooked twice" - which of course the american "biscuit" is NOT cooked twice... so maybe a new word is required for them :p
Cookies are called biscuits over in the UK.
Biscuit is another name for cookie in England.
The United Kingdom (which includes England) uses the word 'biscuit' for the American word 'cookie'.
Sometimes they're called biscuits.
Yes, some do.
We call them biscuits!
Sometimes.
The prefix "bi-" in the word biscuit means "twice" or "double," indicating a process of baking the dough twice to achieve a crisp texture.
it means cake
Biscuit
The word for a biscuit, cracker, or cookie is galleta.
Mithikwiti is the Kikuyu word for the English word biscuit.
as far as i know there is no oranges in the word biscuit
A biscuit that can be cooked at home is a cookie In Britain it's mostly 'biscuits', in North America, it's mostly 'cookies'. As a Briton, I had not heard of cookies until the age of ten, when I visited my cousins in Canada.
The word origin of biscuit is "FRENCH" which means twice cooked.
Ginger snaps.
The word "biscuit" comes from the Old French for "twice cooked," so "bis-" means "twice."
Biscuit has two syllables: bis-cuit
Sweet-meal biscuit is another term for a digestive biscuit...