What is it with coffee shops and countability?
I’ve commented in the past on the Starbucks slogan “Less napkins. More plants. More planet.” *
Today, though, it’s Coffee #1 who have offended my grammatical – and poetical – sensibilites. Again, it’s napkins (or serviettes):
I’ve just got back from a short trip to the UK. Each visit makes me feel more like a foreigner in my own country as I realise I no longer know how things work or what etiquette demands in certain situations.
Of course I still speak as if I was a ‘local’, so it must be odd for shop assistants to see me struggle to find the right change or ask for instructions when I pay by credit card with a UK ‘chip and pin’ card. (Spain doesn’t use the system and I tend to get in a complete knot.)
This trip, one thing that caught my attention was the rubbish system. Continue reading “what do you think of it so far?”
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