I don't understand how you fit all the different subjects in if you do them everyday?
There are very few things true across all US secondary schools - not even the yellow buses, but generally, different subjects are done each year/term depending on how the school is set up. Each course is worth a certain amount of credits, and you need a certain amount (and sometimes certain classes and certain proficiency tests and other things passed) to graduate.
Also, US state schools won't have RE or Collective Worship and typically fewer assemblies. I had Comparative Religion as a humanities elective for half of one year.
Why is American grammar so odd?
Different dialects, and different priorities. The date may be more important to the story than that there was a disagreement, and what's most important is typically put first, or at least that's how I was taught, and I've seen British news stories written that way.
My question would be to Americans - how they feel about gun laws
Different district, states and cities have different gun laws so there is no such thing as American gun laws. Also, different places have different needs - Alaska dealing with bears has different needs than Ohio fights with corn so there is a lot more context needed when discussing these laws compared to the UK.
Personally, I think more focus on ammo restrictions is a better move for the US, and more focus on training and licensing for ownership and selling - which means dealing with the boyfriend loophole and raising the age and also how they can be sold - would be better than trying pick out specific guns to ban or trying to put in a UK style system.
I have one for Brits if it is allowed. What do you do if you want a passport and you don't know anybody who can countersign?
I hate this, it seems so old fashioned, I needed so many during my immigration process and was confused how that would prove anything about me the background checks I had to sign to agree to didn't. I really worried about it, but eventually I found a couple people in the pub next to where my husband works which we've been into enough that the people there with a personal license for alcohol qualified for it.
Teachers and doctors can sign too as can solicitors.
Doctors haven't been allowed to do this for a good decade or more unless they're personal friends or colleagues. All countersigns have to pass the 'if you just saw this photo, would you know who it is?' test.
why would being called a Yankee be offensive, as opposed to just historically inaccurate? Would you rather be called a Confederate?
Yank/Yankee really only works if you're talking baseball. Even as a raised Midwesterner, I associate it with the New England/Northeast coast areas and nothing to do with me - nowt to do with the badly named Civil War that was over a hundred years ago when the US had far fewer states or historical inaccuracy. I would think most Brits would get how annoying it is when a tiny, typically wealthier part of the country that has long had more political power and looked down on the rest is used to discuss the whole.
do most people really write their own wedding vows like in the tv shows/movies? (as far as I’m aware this wouldn’t be legal in a uk church wedding, not sure about a registry office though? But I’ve never heard of anyone doing it in real life)
None of the weddings I attended in the US had them, but they were all evangelical or Catholic religious services.
My husband and I wrote our own vows for a British registry office. The registrar had to read them & I had to take out the word faith, but to them it seemed perfectly normal.
Do Americans wish the total price of an item was what is on the price tag? How can you budget a shop if you don’t know what the end total is going to be?
Yes, but I get why it's like that for chain stores where there could be different state and city taxes within a small area. It can be difficult to budget, but I think there are apps that can help with adding on the tax now.
In America are College and University names for the same thing or is College more for practical subjects ?
They're basically the same thing in the US. The more practical ones are [trade] schools or community colleges, though the latter can have all sorts. Community colleges one of the few things I miss from the US, there just isn't the same in the UK and online doesn't really work for those kinds of subject for me.
Why do American calendars start on a Sunday? Sunday is the WEEKEND.
Yeah, Sunday on one end of the week, Saturday on the other.
I actually have my calendar set to start on Saturdays, seems cheerier to start there and to end on Fridays.
Question for Americans - do you really have American flags by your front door or is that just in the films?
I don't know anyone who does it, but it isn't that odd in many areas and, when I lived near an air base that housed other military personnel, it wasn't odd to see other flags being flown in yards including the British flag.
Would that be the kind of properties under a housing association (I think it's called?) where there is a board who make decisions about what properties are/aren't allowed to do to their homes?
Usually it's houses though I've seen them for condos. It's less the type of properties and more locations - living in a certain area puts you under a housing association or a home owner's association.