British English and American English have a lot in common, but there are some words that are surprisingly very different. I was thinking about that today and decided to have a bit of a competition between some commonly used words that are different in the two languages. Round 1 Cookies vs Biscuits In the USA, we call them ‘cookies’ while in England, they’re called ‘biscuits.’ The word ‘Cookie’ came from a Dutch word ‘koekje’, which means ‘little cakes’, and was first used in New York at the time it was a Dutch colony called New Netherland. Around 1703 the word became Americanized and morphed into the word ‘cookie’ which quickly caught hold and became a catch-all for any type of …
