- Chicory and endive mean the exact opposite of each other in American and UK English. Chicory is endive, endive is chicory, but they are still different plants.
- A mezzanine is not a floor up from the ground floor in a UK theater - it's underneath the stage.
- In the UK, a trapezoid has no two sides parallel; in the US (of course!) it has one pair of parallel sides.
- One I knew but hadn't consciously thought about before: a semi is a kind of house in the UK and a kind of truck in the US.
Learning English
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One more Eurovision song
I finally bought the album for this year's Eurovision. I listened to it on random today while sorting papers. Much to my surprise, a song came on…
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Eurovision Entries 2017
This year's Eurovision song contest features a ridiculously large number of videos with very gloomy visuals, some justified, some not. Over half were…
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The start of goodbye
I wrote this for a four-year-old, trying to minimize the amount of challenging vocabulary incorporated. Perhaps someone else out there would like…
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