Wazza wrote:
>
> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Wazza wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Brit speak is called 'English', what you do with it is our problem, and
> they
> > > are digestive biscuits (from the French, to cook twice), they are
> supposed
> > > to help with digestion, obvious really!
> >
> > ????And here I always thought that digestive comes from the French
> > digestive..... digest, basically the same word with a different
> pronunciation
> > but same meaning, while the English cook comes from Germanic roots as
> opposed to
> > the French cuire ...fair cuire, cuissone, cuisine. cuisinier.
> >
> mm, slight misunderstanding, I was describing the etymology of the word
> biscuit.
> the word biscuit comes from Latin: bis meaning twice and coctus meaning
> cooked
> from there we have medieval Latin biscoctus meaning twice cooked
> and then to Old French bescoit and bescuit
> and finally to Middle English besquite
>
> all way before cookie.
> W

Cookie comes from the Dutch koekje, a small cake.