English is the main language spoken in Oxford. The University, however, has students from over 140 different countries, so there are plenty of people speaking different languages around town.
Unlike the rest of the European Union, the United Kingdom uses the pound sterling. It is usually just called the pound. Sometimes, people refer to pounds in slang, as quid. For people in the United Kingdom, one pound and one quid mean the same thing. One pound is made up of 100 pence. The symbol for the pound sterling is £ and the abbreviation for pence is p, so something that costs one pound is £1 and something that costs 50 pence is 0.50p. If a clerk tells you that something costs 0.50p, he won't say 50 pence, though, he'll actually say it costs "50 p," like the letter. More slang! It can be confusing to talk about foreign money, but once you know all of the words, it's much easier.
A bottle of water costs about £1 pound, which is $1.30.
I had a full English breakfast. I’d heard that having beans and toast for breakfast is part of English culture, but I was surprised when my beans and toast also came with a hash brown, an egg, half of a tomato, a piece of bacon, a sausage link and a portobello mushroom cap.
