Viva la difference. A passage from the incomparable PG Wodehouse demonstrates that the division isn’t a matter of language alone, but can carry across the two cultures entire, in multiple aspects and contexts. BACKSTORY: Wealthy American businessman Bingley Crocker, temporarily ensconced in London against his wishes at the behest of his godawful harridan of a henpecking wife, endeavors to sort out the incomprehensible intricacies of English cricket under the nonplussed tutelage of the family’s British-to-the-bone gentleman’s gentleman, Bayliss.
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Viva la difference. A passage from the incomparable PG Wodehouse demonstrates that the division isn’t a matter of language alone, but can carry across the two cultures entire, in multiple aspects and contexts. BACKSTORY: Wealthy American businessman Bingley Crocker, temporarily ensconced in London against his wishes at the behest of his godawful harridan of a henpecking wife, endeavors to sort out the incomprehensible intricacies of English cricket under the nonplussed tutelage of the family’s British-to-the-bone gentleman’s gentleman, Bayliss.