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References Espinosa 1925, 1930; Espinosa Jr. 1947; Heisley 1985; Lummis 1923a, 1923b; Miller 1973; Ord 1956; Peña 1989; Robe 1976; Roeder 1988; Rojas 1958, 1979; Sanchez 1993
In their restless effort to offer the guest simulated luxury, hotels provide a sewing kit, soap, shampoo, body gel, a Bible, a robe, and a shower cap, but no toothpaste.
For instance, adrenalin is also the common term in AE (not epinephrine ), though the latter is known; BE bath can be tub in AE but is usually bathtub ; an AE cookie is a BE sweet biscuit , but biscuit is a common alternative term in AE for a dry cracker (Remember Uneeda Biscuits ? They are crackers.); Americans bring up their children, as the British do, but they also raise or rear them; AE has both curtains and drapes , but they are different things: BE uses curtains for what AE speakers call drapes ; AE has both deck chair and beach chair , not, as implied, the latter instead of the former; likewise, AE has dressing gown as well as robe and bathrobe , but a dressing gown is more likely to be somewhat fancier; Americans know many games of solitaire , of which patience is just one; both crayfish and crawfish are used in AE, and it is about time that the old (British) fiction that Americans say railroad for what the British call a railway was put to rest: for at least two generations, one of the biggest companies in the US was called Railway Express .
A long history of absorbing outside influences has resulted in a society in which people expect to have a Shinto baptism, a pseudo-Christian wedding (usually held in a hotel “chapel” and officiated by an unordained foreigner in a robe), and a Buddhist funeral.
To take in the sight of the great shrine against the glorious setting sun, spend the night at one of Miyajima’s many Japanese-style hotels and inns, preferably a family-run ryokan or pension (see page 228).After dinner, don your cotton yukata robe and pad out the short distance back to the Itsukushima Shrine.
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