In bullet-ish points in more or less the order I thought them: - You know your liver isn't on the left, right? - Top sheets: they certainly did used to be a thing in the UK, and called that too. Even my mother wouldn't campaign for them back now, but I definitely had them when I was young, and also any time I stayed at my grandma's, which would also have involved an eiderdown and a candlewick bedspread. (Although I don't necessarily think of them as genteel, as I like to be able to poke my limbs out of bed in all available directions, so given hotel-style tucked-in sheets the first thing I'll do is swear at them and then completely untuck them all round.) They seem to still somewhat be a thing here in NZ, and my grandma was proper Northern, so perhaps you just needed to look a little further back in both literal and provincial time. (Did you ever call it a continental quilt, by the way? 'Duvet' took a bit longer to catch on, in my recollection.) - Yep, they don't really worry about language on the radio here either. They didn't in NL either, which may have been for slightly different reasons, but the net effect is that the UK's approach to it now seems oddly prim.
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- You know your liver isn't on the left, right?
- Top sheets: they certainly did used to be a thing in the UK, and called that too. Even my mother wouldn't campaign for them back now, but I definitely had them when I was young, and also any time I stayed at my grandma's, which would also have involved an eiderdown and a candlewick bedspread. (Although I don't necessarily think of them as genteel, as I like to be able to poke my limbs out of bed in all available directions, so given hotel-style tucked-in sheets the first thing I'll do is swear at them and then completely untuck them all round.) They seem to still somewhat be a thing here in NZ, and my grandma was proper Northern, so perhaps you just needed to look a little further back in both literal and provincial time. (Did you ever call it a continental quilt, by the way? 'Duvet' took a bit longer to catch on, in my recollection.)
- Yep, they don't really worry about language on the radio here either. They didn't in NL either, which may have been for slightly different reasons, but the net effect is that the UK's approach to it now seems oddly prim.