American English is an interesting language as it has its own definition of how and where to use certain words.
Cookie which is very American describes a small, flat, baked treat, usually containing fat, flour, eggs and sugar. Other English speakers refer to it as a biscuit.
Now having concocted said cookie the Americans decided to go and use it in various arrangements as in -
You are a smart cookie or you are a tough cookie..depending on the personal characteristics of a human (or animal as the case may be)..
Then there is the reference to those that are found on your computer as in the pieces of code left behind as you visit different websites on the world wide web. Interesting subject to study on how the lowly cookie made its way in to the ether.
Then there is cookie talk - as in crazy talk like the elaborate discussion presented here.
Wonder if the Queen had an aversion to refer to her subjects as loyal biscuits?
Here is another essay on the subject of first names. As in birth names. Or names provided to an offspring at birth. While the developed world tends to shy away from the exotic like Refrigerator or Coca Cola for their new production there is a plethora of Jims and Johns and Bobs or Robs. Speaking of which I do not think there is a categoric decision point at the time of birth if a child will be hereafter called as Bob. I mean have not yet met a toddler called Bob or Rob for that matter. At some point though the parental instinct to mouth out multiple syllables runs out and they switch from calling the crawler Robert to simply Robbie to Rob. Now speaking of - it is strange that the name sounds like something you would not want Rob to do - i.e. Rob anyone. Then why call someone that? After all Rob Peter to Pay Paul is not exactly a maxim to live a young life? Is it? Perhaps Peter or Paul might want to have a say in it? Then there is this matter of going to the John. Why degrad...
Hope the Queen has her cookies in place, still, what with rolling around on barges and having to deal with murderers of the Queen's English -Vinglish..here's to her Health!
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