"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