Five Common Things That Are Branded Slightly Differently In Britain
When it comes to calling a thing a name, some work better than others, depending on where you are. Here are five examples of successful brands—or generic names for branded items—that only work on one...
View Article10 British Words for Illness
As befits a nation that is often blessed with inclement weather, the Brits have a fine array of slang terms for feeling unwell. The ones listed here are only those that don’t appear to have travelled...
View ArticleFive Phrases, Five Tiny Differences
Given that the idea of a uniform spelling for any word you’d care to name has only been in existence for a fraction of the time that written language has, you’d think people would make less fuss about...
View ArticleFive British Easter Traditions That Will Surprise Americans
Tradition is the simple matter of doing something once because it’s the right thing to do, and then doing it again (and again) for no good reason at all. And traditions that have withstood the warping...
View ArticleShould America Adopt the Metric System? A Brit’s Take
This is not going to put to bed any age old arguments about the slow erosion of cultural identity that comes with abandoning the old ways and taking on newfangled ideas. Those arguments will rumble on...
View ArticleFive Great British Soft Drinks That Americans Should Try
I know, you can’t imagine there could even be five flavors of soda that are not currently available on the shelves of every American store. And yet there are, and some of them are massively popular...
View Article5 British Card Games You Should Learn
Warning: thanks in part to the eternal popularity of proper gambler’s games, and the rise of the tablet computer as an alternative to sitting around a table playing cards with your nearest and dearest,...
View Article5 Misconceptions Brits Might Have About America from the Movies
For many people, movies are the only way audiences experience a foreign culture. For anyone not fully immersed in that culture, watching the stories that are set within it can sometimes be...
View Article5 Words the British Got From India
English is a mongrel tongue. It’s a language that betrays influences from every modern language you could care to name and several that no one speaks any more.The post 5 Words the British Got From...
View Article10 Great British Actors Who’ve Nailed An American Accent
Sure, we’ve seen Americans play British, and some have done it very well, thank you. But what of the British actors who had to abandon their natural clipped and precise verbiage (or nasal and muffled,...
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