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    What's wrong with "cookie"?

    BBC NEWS | Entertainment | BBC admits new breaches of trust

    I heard a story that it was changed because "cookie" apparently refers to, ahem, something rude - but blimey, doesn't everything nowdays?

    I dunno, I'll never watch Blue Peter with the same innocence again

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    Re: What's wrong with "cookie"?



    What's wrong with calling a cat Cookie? As your link above says, it's "a nicer name for a pussy."
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    Re: What's wrong with "cookie"?

    yeah i read that, about the Blue Peter name. I had not heard of "cookie" to mean anything rude - obviously a childs word from somewhere. The point is though, they asked people to phone in and vote for a name and then COMPLETELY IGNORED the vote - which did actually cost people money. ALL involved should be sacked in my opinion.

    Ah phone ins. I remember the days when phone in competitions would have difficult questions - nowadays they make the questions as stupid and easy as possible to make more money. Very sad.

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    Re: What's wrong with "cookie"?

    "Cookie" was the name I was told to use for my lady bits when I was a child!
    Also flower and halfpenny, pronounced huppeny in Dundee!!
    Any more and are there regional variations?
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    Re: What's wrong with "cookie"?

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidJames View Post
    BBC NEWS | Entertainment | BBC admits new breaches of trust

    I heard a story that it was changed because "cookie" apparently refers to, ahem, something rude - but blimey, doesn't everything nowdays?

    I dunno, I'll never watch Blue Peter with the same innocence again
    Personally, I object to Cookie on the grounds that the english word is 'biscuit'. Cookie is an american word, and just as a muffin is a small, round bread cake for toasting on the fire and eating with butter (not a glutinous stodgy thing that is an excuse to sell blueberries that nobody otherwise eats), so the cat should have been called Biscuit.


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    Re: What's wrong with "cookie"?

    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
    Personally, I object to Cookie on the grounds that the english word is 'biscuit'. Cookie is an american word, and just as a muffin is a small, round bread cake for toasting on the fire and eating with butter (not a glutinous stodgy thing that is an excuse to sell blueberries that nobody otherwise eats), so the cat should have been called Biscuit.

    To me a "cookie" is a particular type of biscuit. The OED lists 'cookie' as "Orig. chiefly Sc. & N. Amer." which suggests to me it's not entirely an Americanism.
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    Re: What's wrong with "cookie"?

    Lots of words which are assumed to be Americanisms aren't. For example, I believe Fall is the original name for this season; guess it just went to America with the other travellers on the Mayflower.

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    Re: What's wrong with "cookie"?

    its still an Americanism as it has long died out here.

    although i do like the american way of remembering the "daylight savings time" changes - "spring forward, fall back"

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    Re: What's wrong with "cookie"?

    Quote Originally Posted by ducasi View Post
    To me a "cookie" is a particular type of biscuit. The OED lists 'cookie' as "Orig. chiefly Sc. & N. Amer." which suggests to me it's not entirely an Americanism.
    Nah, don't agree.

    In the seventeenth century 'fall' was the word used in england for the period between summer and winter. But for the last 150 years it's not been used. So if it suddenly regains popularity it won't be because people think they want to bring back an olde englishe worde for autumn, it'll be because they hear it all the time on TV and in films. So it would be an americanism.

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    Re: What's wrong with "cookie"?

    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
    Nah, don't agree.

    In the seventeenth century 'fall' was the word used in england for the period between summer and winter. But for the last 150 years it's not been used. So if it suddenly regains popularity it won't be because people think they want to bring back an olde englishe worde for autumn, it'll be because they hear it all the time on TV and in films. So it would be an americanism.
    er...ducasi discussed "cookie" not "fall" - that was Juju ! Friday dementia ?

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    Re: What's wrong with "cookie"?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    its still an Americanism as it has long died out here.
    Said in 11 words what took me much longer - curses!

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    Re: What's wrong with "cookie"?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    er...ducasi discussed "cookie" not "fall" - that was Juju ! Friday dementia ?
    No. I wrote my reply - using fall as an exemplar - before Juju's post, but then was interrupted before I could 'submit'.

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    Re: What's wrong with "cookie"?

    Quote Originally Posted by Juju View Post
    Lots of words which are assumed to be Americanisms aren't. For example, I believe Fall is the original name for this season; guess it just went to America with the other travellers on the Mayflower.


    From wiki:
    The English language was first introduced to the Americas by British colonization, beginning in the early 17th century. Similarly, the language spread to numerous other parts of the world as a result of British colonization elsewhere and the spread of the former British Empire, which, by 1921, held sway over a population of about 470–570 million people: approximately a quarter of the world's population in that time.

    Over the past 400 years, the form of the language used in the Americas – especially in the United States – and that used in the United Kingdom and the rest of the British Isles have diverged in many ways, leading to the dialects now commonly referred to as American English and British English. Differences between the two include pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary (lexis), spelling, punctuation, idioms, formatting of dates and numbers, and so on.
    Basically American English is actually slightly old-fashioned in some respects.

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    Re: What's wrong with "cookie"?

    It could be rhyming slang - "Cooking Fat" and you can work the rest out for yourself!

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    Re: What's wrong with "cookie"?

    Nicked from elsewhere, but "that's the way the cookie crumbles"

    Boom boom. I know, coat, here I come...

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    Re: What's wrong with "cookie"?

    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
    No. I wrote my reply - using fall as an exemplar - before Juju's post, but then was interrupted before I could 'submit'.
    aha - now it makes sense

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    Re: What's wrong with "cookie"?

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidJames View Post
    Nicked from elsewhere, but "that's the way the cookie crumbles"

    Boom boom. I know, coat, here I come...
    i'm guessing it was a Basil Brush joke

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    Re: What's wrong with "cookie"?

    [quote=DavidJames;411070]BBC NEWS | Entertainment | BBC admits new breaches of trust

    I heard a story that it was changed because "cookie" apparently refers to, ahem, something rude - but blimey, doesn't everything nowdays?

    I dunno, I'll never watch Blue Peter with the same innocence again



    What's better then..........Hot Cookie???
    Or Hot Socks???

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    Oh dear I need to change my surname quick - my whole life I've been called Cookie and numerous variations thereof.....I thought people were being nice to me wen they caleld me it!

    I wonder if my parents would mind if i changed my name from Cooke!

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    I'm sorry but Socks?? are they going to get another dog next and call it thong? but to be honest Blue Peter in another Phone poll fixing....Shocker!!!!

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