"Tony Walton" > wrote in message
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> > Scones/biscuits, biscuits/cookies,
>
> True. The things I've seen in the US as "biscuits" are nowhere near
> what I (in the UK) would call biscuits. Interesting, the way words
> differ...

the Americans use the word biscuits to describe things that are very like
scones.

ant