Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights ' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'
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Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.
Then when I got in the military I used to host - even in high school - I...
At school there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom...
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In our racist sexist society Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing...
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I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to...
The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I...
Every Christmas now for years I have found myself wondering about the point...
It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song but at the same time I...