There is a horizontal bar across almost every exit door in a public American building. You have pushed thousands of them without looking at one.
It is worth looking, because…
Hold a block of supermarket cheddar next to a block of English or Irish cheddar and one of them is a colour that does not occur in dairy. It is…
The American roadside mailbox is such a fixed feature of the landscape that it reads as a natural object. It is on a wooden post, it has a curved top…
Most Americans drive on these roads for a lifetime without discovering that the numbers mean something. They are treated as names - arbitrary labels that happen to be numerals.
They…
It is one of the small things that produces real confusion rather than amusement. A date written as a string of numbers with a slash between them is ambiguous in…
Americans visiting Europe discover that food scraps go in a bin, and Europeans visiting America discover a switch on the wall that makes a noise like a small industrial accident…