What do English people call telephone poles?

So instead of a bachelor or bachelorette party, there’s a stag do and a hen do. And it’s unlikely that, as with other traditions like baby showers, the American version will eventually take over as, to most British ears bachelorette sounds like an unnecessarily frilly feminization of an exclusively male term, akin to, I dunno, beardette or prostatrix. read more

Many people think of these types of power poles as “old fashioned,” and you could say they’re right. After all, it’s not very often that powerline workers will install a telephone pole or utility pole with more than 1 or 2 cross arms. read more