Month: October 2014
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Slight differences
As Americans look forward to an extra hour of sleep this weekend, we “fell back an hour” last weekend. I put together a list of things that we’ve noticed so far that are completely different between the two countries. It is a US versus UK showdown! 1. Doors For fire safety reasons (correct me if…
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Holiday versus vacation
In the US, I never really thought much about the meaning of the words I used on a regular basis. However, nearly every day I’m learning gobs of new words and phrases. Or I am learning alternative meanings for words and phrases (for example, pants aren’t the same thing as trousers). One thing I recently learned was what the…