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US cookies are a specific kind of biscuit elsewhere. The US seems to simply not have the variety elsewhere. A US biscuit is a specific kind of Scottish scone. A regular scone is different. A cookie is always an American cookie in UK & Ireland. We now get some USA non-cookie biscuits (in the Irish/British sense) foisted on us, such as Oreos. Some biscuits and crackers thought of as British are Irish inventions and one seems to be Canadian (Twiglets). English "Peak Freen" was the most prolific biscuit inventor.
I have a whole dictionary of US vs British. I notice too that USA books are almost never "translated" to British English, but British and Irish (not Irish Language) books are often adapted for the USA.
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