They demand granite countertops. We don't. They abhor 20-year-old kitchen cabinets. We don't notice they're 20 years old. They want his-and-her vanities in the master bath. We want to know, what exactly is a "vanity"?
Aha, it's a sink. "Sink" is a bit downscale-sounding, don't you think? That's what the under-butler uses.
This is the season for standardized test-taking in public schools and that has led to a resurgence in the sometimes anguished debate over Common Core education standards for math and English.
Last week in New York state, students took Common Core English-language arts tests developed by Pearson, a U.K.-based textbook publisher, and complaints soon began rolling in. Some said that questions were poorly written, that the reading material was too advanced or that questions didn't make sense.