Modern scones are widely available in British and Irish bakeries, grocery stores, and supermarkets.

British scones are often lightly sweetened, but may also be savoury.

Breads, griddle cakes and scones with bicarbonate of soda and cream of tartar or tartaric acid became popular in Austria, Polish cuisine ( as do Pieczenia-Proziaki ) and in the British Isles.

Architects in the UK who have made contributions to the profession through design excellence or architectural education, or have in some other way advanced the profession, might until 1971 be elected Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects and can write FRIBA after their name if they feel so inclined.

As neither tune is attributed and both show elements of oral transmission, scholars can only speculate that they are possibly of British origin.

Some distinctive accents can be found on the East Coast ( for example, in eastern New England and New York City ) partly because these areas were in close contact with England and imitated prestigious varieties of British English at a time when these were undergoing changes.

According to the Jargon File, American hackers switched to what they later discovered to be the British quotation system because placing a period inside a quotation mark can change the meaning of data strings that are meant to be typed character-for-character.

Or, third, it incorporates the United Kingdom rules of succession into the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, which itself can now be altered only by Australia, according to the Australia Act 1986 ; in that way, the British rules of succession have been patriated to Australia and, with regard to Australia, are subject to amendment or repeal solely by Australian law.

British architects Brenda and Robert Vale have said that, as of 2002, " It is quite possible in all parts of Australia to construct a ' house with no bills ', which would be comfortable without heating and cooling, which would make its own electricity, collect its own water and deal with its own waste ... These houses can be built now, using off-the-shelf techniques.

The beginnings of badminton can be traced to mid-18th century British India, where it was created by British military officers stationed there.

Because of his widespread correspondence with others throughout the British Isles, and due to the fact that many of the letters imply that Bede had met his correspondents, it is likely that Bede travelled to some other places, although nothing further about timing or locations can be guessed.

especially in England English is tautologous ," and it shares " all the ambiguities and tensions in the word British, and as a result can be used and interpreted in two ways, more broadly or more narrowly, within a range of blurring and ambiguity.

While the British military historian Sir John Keegan suggested an ideal definition of battle as " something which happens between two armies leading to the moral then physical disintegration of one or the other of them ", the origins and outcomes of battles can rarely be summarized so neatly.

The seven permanent Egyptian galleries at the British Museum, which include its largest exhibition space ( Room 4, for monumental sculpture ), can display only 4 % of its Egyptian holdings.

Products are commonly specified as meeting a particular British Standard, and in general this can be done without any certification or independent testing.

Copies of British Standards are sold at the BSI Online Shop or can be accessed via subscription to British Standards Online ( BSOL ).

Lionel Curtis, writing in the imperialist journal The Round Table, wrote: " If the British Commonwealth can only be preserved by such means, it would become a negation of the principle for which it has stood ".

The boom in the Cayman Islands ' international finance industry can also be at least partly attributed to the British overseas territory having no direct taxation.

In the Welsh language who's origins, like Cornish is from the ancient British or Brythonic language line, ' Cist ' is also used for such ancient graves, but in modern use, can also mean a chest, a coffer, a box, or even the boot / trunk of a car.

In British English, it is generally accepted that collective nouns can take either singular or plural verb forms depending on the context and the metonymic shift that it implies.

For example, in British Columbia, Justice of Peace can only issue summon to the offender for Contempt, for which will be dealt with by a judge, even if the offence was done at the face of the Justice.

In American English, the word company can include entities such as partnerships that, in British English would not be referred to as companies as they are not a separate legal entity.

The lasting legacy of the denarius can be seen in the use of " d " as the abbreviation for the British penny prior to 1971.

They can be seen in 19th-century liberal British theology and in the rise of Unitarianism, which adopted many of its beliefs and ideas.

The official birth of the term " stab-in-the-back " itself possibly can be dated to the autumn of 1919, when Ludendorff was dining with the head of the British Military Mission in Berlin, British general Sir Neill Malcolm.

While Israeli law is undergoing codification, its basic principles are inherited from the law of the British Mandate of Palestine and thus resemble those of British and American law, namely: the role of courts in creating the body of law and the authority of the supreme court in reviewing and if necessary overturning legislative and executive decisions, as well as employing the adversarial system.

Politics in the Falkland Islands is minimal as no political parties exist on the islands, and the governmental and legal proceedings very closely resemble British standards.

India's independent judicial system began under the British, and its concepts and procedures resemble those of Common Law countries.

Historian Paul Moon believes certain articles of the Treaty resemble the Treaty of Utrecht ( 1713 ), the British Sherbo Agreement ( 1825 ) and the Treaty between Britain and Soombia Soosoos ( 1826 ).

Traditionally, North American, British, and French timpanists set their drums up with the lowest drum on the left and the highest on the right ( commonly called the American system ), while German, Austrian, and Greek players set them up in the reverse order, as to resemble a drum set or upright bass.

For example, although such models are now widely used to study Parkinson's disease, the British anti-vivisection interest group BUAV argues that these models only superficially resemble the disease symptoms, without the same time course or cellular pathology.

The U. S. Department of Defense withdrew its cooperation for the film so the tanks Serling commanded early in the film were British Centurions shipped from Australia with sheet metal added to make them resemble M1A1 Abrams.

The travails of McClintock, who was played by Jack Palance ( Sean Connery played the part on British television and Anthony Quinn assayed the role in the 1962 film ) was thought by many boxing fans to resemble Carnera's life.

The Festival Theatre's thrust stage was designed by British designer Tanya Moiseiwitsch to resemble both a classic Greek amphitheatre and Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, and has become a model for other stages in North America and Great Britain.

There were attempts by British breeders to create Maus from cross-breeds of Abyssinians, Siamese and tabbies, however these did not resemble the true Maus.

India's independent judicial system began under the British, and its concepts and procedures resemble those of Anglo-Saxon countries.

In 1791, the first British patent was granted to Nicholas Dubois De Chemant, previous assistant to Duchateau, for " De Chemant's Specification ", " a composition for the purpose of making of artificial teeth either single double or in rows or in complete sets, and also springs for fastening or affixing the same in a more easy and effectual manner than any hitherto discovered which said teeth may be made of any shade or colour, which they will retain for any length of time and will consequently more perfectly resemble the natural teeth.

" In addition, the speech patterns of the British characters are changed to resemble English grammar.

A January 1880 British expedition to the island led by M. V. Portman reported that " their methods of cooking and preparing their food resemble those of the Ongés, not those of the aborigines of the Great Andaman.

Dole horses closely resemble the British Fell and Dales ponies, which developed from the same ancestral stock.

The old destroyer Campbeltown, which the British planned to sacrifice in the operation, was provided with cosmetic modifications, cutting the ship's funnels and chamfering the edges to resemble a German Möwe-class destroyer.

The First Army, led by a cowardly general and designed by Gibson to resemble the British Tommies of the First World War, is annihilated.

The structure housing the surface station entrance was designed to resemble Victorian-era British railway stations, with a peaked glass roof.

The sweeter versions resemble the almost-defunct British style " milk stout ", while the stronger ones are sometimes described as Imperial stouts.

Though technically European, British comics are for historical and cultural reasons considered separate from European comics due to the existence of a well-established domestic market and traditions which more closely resemble the development of American comics.

The spelling systems of most Commonwealth countries and Ireland, for the most part, closely resemble the British system.

As they had a lot of British rock influence, they wanted a new name and image that would resemble that of a British band.