My standard reaction to the question can I get you a coffee? had always been "no thanks", accompanied by a vague feeling of di...
Finding America
Me and Tarah
As the world's third (second, by some estimates) most spoken language, it is perhaps appropriate that there should be so many jokes ab...
We Brits have a slang expression for seemingly all aspects of daily life; food, drink, sex, work, education etc. And the concept of money...
Following on from an earlier list that looked at 7 British Christmas songs that somehow never made it big in the US , here are 6 Christma...
It was 1990. Ahead of our stay in Florida that year, my parents had been weary of an inordinately high number of kidnappings in Orlando....
It's the most wonderful time of the year. And while Christmas is a time of celebration, it's also a time for Brits and America...
There are certain articles that, during the process of writing them, force me to revert back to a fourteen-year-old version of myself. Thi...
We've all heard the stereotypes: Americans eat too much; Americans have bigger portions; Americans are all overweight. As someone w...
Growing up in the United Kingdom, one of the more memorable elements of Christmas was the music that bombarded the airwaves day-in-day-ou...
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For a country that only gained its independence less than 240 years ago, the United States has been responsible for a surprising number ...
This past Sunday officially marked five years since I hopped on a plane and headed 4,000 miles west to the Midwestern state of Indiana to ...
“Remember, Remember the 5 th of November, Gunpowder Treason and Plot” To commemorate the great British annual tradition of...
As any British expatriate will tell you (myself included), it is almost impossible to adapt to life in the United States without occasio...
Having moved to the United States from Britain in 2008, I have often pondered how this large country of more than 300 million people might...
It is often said (by people like me) that everything is bigger in the United States; the same is true of specific weekend activities, at l...
As someone who has experienced both British English and American English on a wide scale, I have heard plenty of my fellow Brits lambast Am...
The following statistics were taken from various sources, including the CIA World Factbook , World Health Organization and Organisation Int...
Whatever you might think of the United States of America, it still has the potential to become as great (whatever that means) as some Amer...
In alphabetical order - listed in the pink table below - are 32 statistical comparisons between The United States and the United Kingdom. ...
Located in the northern hemisphere, both the United States and Great Britain (from an astronomical point of view) enter autumn at the st...
Though some British people like to ridicule America for its perceived culture of excessive eating, those same Brits will nonetheless indul...
Following on from a list I compiled recently of British equivalents, here is a list of 32 American slang words for drunk.
It is quite common for British prescriptivists (people who don't welcome change to the language) to bemoan the American spelling of wo...
Disclaimer: article contains wild generalisations and stereotypes. As I have stated on numerous occasions, I love living in the United S...
Regular readers of this blog will no doubt be familiar with my language-based posts. It is well known that Britain and the United Stat...
Since I began this blog I have written fairly extensively about the British foods I miss most. But something I have noticed over the pr...
Something that drives British people absolutely bonkers is hearing an American "mispronounce" the name of Dutch post-impressionist...
Those who read my blog on a frequent basis understand that, since moving to the United States, I have retroactively grown to thoroughly ap...
One of the things I cherish most about living in the United States - especially as someone with a deep interest in language nuances - is w...
Even though the Star Wars saga bears all the hallmarks of an American film franchise - explosions, an all-encompassing musical score and,...
Something that stands out to both UK and American expats is the considerable difference in portion sizes between their respective count...
This past Labor Day weekend, I was fortunate enough to enjoy a three-day weekend in the hills of West Virginia. Anyone who has visited ...
Dear Britain and America, I am writing this letter in the hope that one, if not both, of you will come to your senses and kindly refrain...
A couple of weeks ago, in my column for Anglotopia , I wrote a heartfelt post about the things I miss most about Britain . I never intende...
Those of us Brits who like to think they can nail a perfect American accent might want to think again. There are certain words that, for w...
British English (BrE) American English (AmE) 999 911 Aerial Antenna Dialing code Area code Government Communications...
Following on from last week's list , here are 5 more British food items that all Americans should try.
During the 1980s and early 1990s, it was fashionable among tourists of all ages to wear what is now considered somewhat of a fashion faux ...
Growing up in England, you get to know a thing or two about accents. In my case, from a relatively young age, I would secretly practice va...
Whether you love or hate British cuisine, there's no denying that some food items are simply too delicious for words. While the items ...
When you've gotta go, you've gotta go. But if you're a British expat living in America - or vice versa - you may want to tre...
Amid the widespread media coverage in the United States of Kate Middleton's pregnancy and subsequent labor, we were reminded once agai...
With the birth of Kate and William 's baby imminent , I thought I would take a look at some of the more likely baby names on their li...
I've lived in the United States for 4 years, 7 months and 8 days. In that time many people have asked me what I miss most about Engl...
British Version Half a pound of tuppenny rice, Half a pound of treacle. That’s the way the money goes, Pop! goes the we...
Dear Britain, I am writing to let you (and a certain number of your population) know that, contrary to popular belief, not all Americans h...
Guest post by John Rooney. Whether it's to take up a new job, experience a new culture or simply to escape the often miserable Brit...
If the British are good at one thing, it is this: creating sex words. So prolific are they, in fact, that America - arguably still the...