Words for baked goods are hard to translate between American and British English, because the goods themselves are different.
For example, there is no British equivalent of the sort of American biscuit that one encounters served with ham, sausage, or cheese. On the other hand, there is no American equivalent of a McVitie's dark chocolate wheatmeal biscuit (yum!). "English muffins" have never been native to England. Scones aren't the same, because they are not nearly so bready and aren't served toasted. Cookies exist in the U.S., in profusion, but are rarely seen in the U.K. The British biscuit (see McVitie's, above) has some similarities, but is not nearly so sweet. Scones have begun to appear in the U.S., but rather than the modest snacks served with tea in Britain, they're usually crusty irregular blobs half the size of Cotty's head (with hat). Final linguistic note: In the U.S., one buys a joint to smoke and get high. In the U.K., one buys a joint to roast for Sunday dinner. However, a pint of beer is a pint of beer (though one is 20 oz/568 mL, and another is 16 oz/473 mL; and the British beer is generally better). Rick --- On Fri, 3/12/10, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > From: P. J. Alling <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: question for the brits American to English translation > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, March 12, 2010, 2:01 PM > On 3/12/2010 1:54 PM, David J Brooks > wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:34 PM, John Sessoms<[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> From: ann sanfedele > >> > >>> The closest thing to our biscuit , I think, > would be a scone. > >>> (at least from a cooks point of view) > >>> > >>> ann (brit on her father's side) > >>> > >> Ok, I'll bite. What's their name for an English > Muffin? > >> > > Sally > > > > I thought it was crumpet or a word that rimes with it... > > > Dave > > > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> [email protected] > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the > link directly above and > >> follow the directions. > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > -- > {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 > Courier New;}} > \viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs20 I've just upgraded to > Thunderbird 3.0 and the interface subtly weird.\par > } > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
