Migration patterns
The BBC has some interesting figures on immigration in their Migrant World, which includes several personal stories of migration, and a decent glossary of
. Every once in a while it hits home that I'm not from round here,
when I have to say "no tom-AY-doe please" instead of "no tom-AH-Toe," when someone asks me whether the accelerator is
on the far left or far right in a British car, when I get mildly frustrated that all the coins are round and all the paper money is the same size and colour (barring the new $20 bill, which looks rather odd). Migrant World is definitely an interesting read.