Words You Wouldn’t Think are Pronounced Differently in the UK but are:
Garage - instead of Guh-rahge, they pronounce it Gare-uhge, like carriage with a G. I was really excited about this one because Elton John’s Levon finally made sense- his character was counting money in a “garage” on a motorway, not in some Winnebago by [...]
Well, not really. But there’s a surprising amount of things that apply. I came up with a few things on my own- if you have any ideas, let me know and I’ll add them to the list!
Curiosity is a good thing! It’ll help you find subjects to draw in crayon for art class or topics [...]
My purse is heavy. Sometimes ridiculously heavy. I’ve broken several purses basically by just walking around with them. I’m actually already on my second purse while in London, although I’m pretty sure that was because the first one was from Target and was just incredibly cheaply made.
You could just tell me to stop carrying around [...]
I’ve noticed here in London that it’s easy to look around and get fooled into thinking that British culture is just like American culture. People here obsess over the same actors and musicians, drink the same sodas and eat the same chocolate bars, buy the same types of shoes and clothes. Of course there are [...]
Once I figured out that I absolutely was going to be a journalist and that nothing else would really make me happy in quite the same way (second semester of sophomore year at Mason), I made a plan. I knew even then that the journalism industry as we knew it was dying, as some people [...]
So I’ve been pretty sick since last Thursday. As my post at the time mentioned, I was diagnosed by a nurse practitioner at NHS with a gastric virus.
Because I wanted desperately to get better and not miss too many days of work, I obeyed basically all her instructions, even the ones that sounded silly to [...]
This is written as my personal response to a series of tweets and a blog post from PaulBradshaw.
1. I did initially start using Twitter to publicize my work. Once I started working a lot more online, I found it was difficult sometimes to get people to read my stories when on different days of the [...]
So I went out to a pub Saturday night with my flatmates and Dan, a guy friend of ours, to watch the last bits of the England vs. Wales Rugby game. Wales won, Dan was sad, I discovered that drinking beer when your throat is sore is a really stupid idea, but most importantly, I [...]
Yeah uh. I wrote a story for NorthWest London Newspapers on a circus coming to town and visited it one early rainy morning to get made up as a clown for pictures. It was definitely interesting.
The strangest thing happened while I was calling up the people at the circus for interviews- though I’ve never had [...]
Today, I had my first experience with a public health care system. As I’d felt really sick for multiple days at this point (I won’t bore you or gross you out with details), I went over to the Soho Centre for Health and Care. Anglo American Educational Services had suggested it to me.
I had to [...]
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