The Corner

Things My Kids Found Striking About England

I asked, they told me.

(1) Belisha beacons.

(2) Cress (in egg-and-cress sandwiches).

(3) Being addressed as “Duck” by perfect strangers. (A dialect peculiarity

of my home town — prob. a corruption of “Duke/Duchess.”)

John Derbyshire — Mr. Derbyshire is a former contributing editor of National Review.
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