2024.12.10

Think you know the differences between UK and US spelling? Take our quiz
From beer and facial hair to stomach bugs and car parts, test your knowledge of English’s transatlantic idiosyncrasies
Zoe Williams: Online puzzles are puzzling enough without all this American lingo
Kate McCusker
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/dec/10/think-you-know-the-differences-between-uk-and-us-spelling-take-our-quiz

Rare Roman coin featuring Brutus sold at Geneva auction for almost €2m
Item bears a portrait of Julius Caesar’s assassin surrounded by a laurel wreath with war symbols on the reverse
Agence France-Presse in Geneva
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/dec/09/rare-roman-coin-featuring-brutus-sold-at-geneva-auction-for-almost-2m

Texas
US teacher loses job after bathroom ban led to children urinating on themselves
Several first-grade students wet themselves at Bartlett elementary in Texas due to educator’s punishment
Ramon Antonio Vargas
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/10/texas-teacher-bathroom-privilege-punishment

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