This ties into one of my biggest rants. Off-world alien cultures who have never been exposed to an American using American slang. It just boggles the mind! :)

Anyway, on the subject of holidays, I once read a fic where Jack O'Neill made plans for Boxing Day. I was totally thrown for a loop, because as an American, I had never heard of Boxing Day. I finally got up enough nerve to ask the author about it, and she made a smooth recovery in her fic when she realized that most Americans were clueless on this holiday. Just a thought here, it might be a good idea to find a list of American and/or British holidays when writing about those cultures. :)

"tea" (or "supper") versus "dinner"
The morning meal is breakfast; the midday meal is lunch; and the evening meal is dinner. In some parts of the US, the evening meal might be supper--follow what your canon characters say. If someone is invited for tea, it's literally just for a cup of tea, and maybe cookies. ("Biscuits" are a type of flour roll served with butter or gravy.)

I hope you don't mind me asking for advice, but there are a couple of things that I am forever being confused about and the above paragraph has an example of them both. *hugs you for making it easier for me* Wouldn't the punctuation go "after" the end quotation marks in the first line? You had mentioned earlier that the punctuation mark "always" goes before the end quotation mark, which is true in dialog, but for some reason I keep thinking it should go after when using them for emphasis and titles. Could you clarify it for me, once and for all, please?

The other thing that makes me think every time I use them is parentheses. Someone may have covered this before, and I apologize if I missed it, but in your example, the period came before the end parenthesis. Does it matter if it goes after? Before or after, after or before...

Just curious!

Thanks for the wonderful insight into American vs. British English. I found myself nodding at everything you wrote!