How to Tell a Yank From a Brit

Offer a cup of tea

Photo, author’s own

My husband is American, but he’s lived in England for the past thirty years. During this time, he has gradually embraced the mores of his adopted country, and his Boston accent has softened. He says courgette and aubergine rather than zucchini and eggplant. He talks about the chances of rain (snow shovelling and air conditioners are distant memories), and he has even become…