Why do Brits call a cookie a biscut?

Biscuit is the proper term.
Cookie comes from the Dutch word "koekje" (in most Dutch accent pronounced the same as cookie). Those silly Americans should learn English!

To make it more complicated: In Dutch "koek" is a group of fine bakery products not confined to only biscuits. So the meaning might also be different between the UK and the USA.

"biscuit" actually ... Am I the only pedant here ????

The word is biscuit. A biscuit is not a cookie. A cookie is a cookie.

Full marks to Samonhissoapbox.

No, I'm with you buddy - but I didn't spot this one.

Biscut = a wound made by the sharp edge of a Hobnob.

Oh come on! If somebody invites me to their house for a meal, I am not going to ask for something they weren't serving!

In the United States, do people eat a full biscuits plus coffee gravy plus greens plus some kind of stew plus bacon plus whatever meal every day? That's a treat, surely?

If I cook oxtail stew for you I will serve it with potatoes and maybe a salad (and something traditional like parsnips and carrots). Maybe even Yorkshire Pudding, if you are lucky. Requests for "biscuits" are like telling your host that the wine is "off" and you want to send it back!

:)

(only teasing)

AP

Last I checked, it was the English that developed the English language....

Because it's our language. You taint it. :)

For goodness sake! It is a word! They also call a cigarette a ***!

the same reasons americans call biscuts cookies

Because that is what they are called,that is the proper name

Hey... what does he call it? gingerbread... or gingerbread cake??

I'm laughing so hard!!!!!!!!!

Same reason they call the hood on the car a bonnet.
Joe

I like the cookie!!! [in a squealing voice]

Because the word "cookie" is Dutch. :)

Brits are eccentric

Why not?

A cookie is a type of biscuit to me. What you call a biscuit I call a scone.

because they are proper