Regular readers know that in some ways I have been influenced by British standards -- spelling peculiarities, for instance; specifically those eccentric usages that the English borrowed from Norman French -- even though I am as American as Apple Pie.Which we Dutch Americans invented.
Along with Hamburgers, Horseradish, and Pickled Beets.
And Cookies.
Cookies!
Consequently the video clip below is unsettling.
A DISTURBANCE IN THE FORCE
[SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whLHguPnK0E.]
I'm with Cookie Monster on this one. Even though John Olliver is such a likable woozzums. It isn't a biscuit. Biscuits by definition mean items that have been twice done, id est foreign comestibles such as rusks, beschuit, and biscotti.
Biscuit also has unfortunate connotations.
Of a totally depraved nature.
They ought to pass a law forcing Brits to speak English.
It would make John Olliver intelligible.
Especially in the South.
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