Uh, calm down. She's not mocking Brit English. It's just that the word "wee" here sounds very cutesy, like what you'd say to a child, so for an adult to say it to another adult, it sounds funny to us. It's not that we're mocking you for it, it's just very unexpected and has a different feel to us. It's just not…

Totally agree. On a flight from Seoul to the U.S., a young child (maybe 4 or 5) spent the entire flight trying to get his mother's attention in a really bratty way—his parents had clearly given up trying to parent him. He spent the whole time saying—no, yelling, "MOM! MOM! WAKE UP! MOM!" For 14 hours. Parents totally…

I don't know the science on that, but I do know you can have an allergic reaction to iodized salt if you have allergy to corn, because manufacturers use dextrose to stabilize it, and dextrose almost always comes from corn. So maybe you can't be allergic to iodine, but you can be allergic to iodized salt.

Eh, I'm straightforward, and I love vocabulary—I write high-level stuff for a living. But as an introvert, I'm better on paper, and I need to think through what I want to say before I say it or it comes out wrong. That's why I also outline and then rehearse my phone calls.