This is the beautiful, populist, profoundly American animating principle of Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives: that world-class food can be had anywhere, and for a reasonable price, because our nation is a proud mosaic of immigrants
British people pretending half 10 is 10:30 is ridiculous.
Half 10 is 9:30, not 10:30.
You can’t just leave out a vital word in the sentence "half past 10" and pretend it's still the same sentence. 😭
My contribution to the “should PhDs be called doctor” discourse is just a quiet disappointment that I got mine at the precise moment that random online forms dropped the “salutation” menu