Talk:biscuit

US sense

I wasn't going to stand by and not have the version I grew up with not acknowleged. Infested with weevils indeed! I'm pretty sure the American meaning is common enough to warrant position #2. Not sure why it took so long to get there, though. If there's a reason for it not to show up, let me know. 82.111.242.163 00:17, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

No conscious reason, I'm sure. Thanks for the addition! Rod (A. Smith) 04:23, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Translations

The first set of translations has the gloss "small, flat baked good — See also translations at cookie". It's not at all clear to me which meaning of biscuit is intended, the British biscuit or the American biscuit. I'm going to add a translation that assumes the British sense. If it's the American biscuit, my translation (and others) will need to be changed. The gloss should be changed to specify which kind of biscuit is meant. —Stephen ^(Talk) 04:39, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

Biscuit (U.S,historic)=cookie

Perhaps we could find a way to emphasise in this entry just how widespread ‘biscuit’ meaning cookie was in the U.S in the past, as least in the Northern states. Nabisco was the National Biscuit Company and there were the United Biscuit Company and Sunshine Biscuit Company. In the meantime I’ve added a quote claiming that even Oreo’s were originally called ‘Oreo biscuits’ rather than ‘Oreo cookies’ to Citations:biscuit. Overlordnat1 (talk) 14:10, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

Doublet??

The etymology claims that the source(s) are a doublet, but do not make it clear which terms comprise the doublets, nor why they are a doublet, as they all seem to hark eventually from the Latin bis + coctus; sounds to me more like cognate than doublet. JonRichfield (talk) 11:05, 6 October 2023 (UTC)