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Sep 8, 2016 at 15:02	comment	added	Airymouse		I'm a newbie who wandered over from Math Stack and I don't quite know the rules of engagement. I meant my remarks to be about the question not your answer. So I should have posted above "2. Answers." I apologize. I have a Random House dictionary that says for meaning 3. of biscuit, "Also called bisque. Ceramic porcelain after firing." It adds "var. of bescuit seamen's bread, lit., twice cooked ..." The suffix,"-uit," is usually one syllable and allegedly for some it's said as one syllable in "conduit." I'd ask if ANYONE says that, but I know it would cost me reputations.
Sep 8, 2016 at 13:58	comment	added	Peter Point		@Airymouse I have done the math. Nothing in your otherwise interesting and informative comment has any bearing on my answer above where my reference to "biscuit" makes no mention of how biscuits are baked/cooked, let alone how many times they are baked or cooked. I wonder if your comment was meant to be posted elsewhere?
Sep 8, 2016 at 13:33	comment	added	Airymouse		The etymology of "biscuit" is that it is twice cooked. We in the South are famous for our (US) biscuits which are certainly not twice cooked. But Nabisco invented a cracker that really is twice cooked and, taking as given that a biscuit is twice cooked, they called their cracker a "Triscuit." Do the Math.
Sep 8, 2016 at 13:05	history	answered	Peter Point	CC BY-SA 3.0