How did “acker” come to mean friend in West Country English?
2020年7月27日 · acker a friend. Somerset usage; the jazz musician Acker Bilk, born in Pensford, Somerset, took his professional name from this dialect word. But the lack of any recorded mention of acker in this sense before the rise of Acker Bilk is striking—and somewhat puzzling. The slang term may be older than Mr. Bilk, but if so it led a remarkably ...
How did "biscuit" come to have a distinct meaning in North …
2017年11月2日 · With regard to the Oxford Living Dictionary definition of biscuit in the North American sense as "A small, soft round cake like a scone," it bears noting that a true Southern U.S. biscuit is no sweeter than most types of bread—which is to say that the comparison to a scone is somewhat misleading, and the allusion to cake is truly off-base unless we understand cake as referring strictly to shape.