English people revel in their well-deserved reputation for eccentricity. Consider word pronunciation - aluminum, for instance, is “al-YOU-MINI-um”, when they bloody well know the correct American way to say it. Aspartame is “ass-PART-A-me” (Are you being real with me right now, Clive?). Then there’s that tea fetish, upon which the Japanese gaze with wide-eyed bewilderment. And spelling with all those superfluous “U”s is way out of hand, as is their aversion to preventative dentistry. But they have one behavior that’s head and shoulders above all that stuff and they do it to this very day.
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