There is a specific and very common experience in American shopping: a person takes three garments of the same stated size into a fitting room and finds that they are…
This is one of those differences that nobody notices until they travel, and then cannot stop noticing.
In the United States, up is on. The toggle points to the ceiling…
There is a pattern in American buildings that is so consistent it looks designed, and in a sense it was.
Commercial, public and institutional buildings use lever handles. Houses use…
An American moving to Europe discovers a washing machine the size of a filing cabinet, built into a kitchen run, with a round glass door and a cycle that takes…
Of all the things people argue about between Britain and the United States, this one has the clearest answer and the most confident wrong assumptions.
The accusation is familiar. Americans…
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A newsstand was a very small business in a very small building, and in American cities there were thousands of them - on corners, outside stations, in hotel…