>No, as part of my on-going interest in finding out stuff about you strange people across the Atlantic

Do you mean Canadians? < snicker >

>Every time I see someone in bed, in an American film or TV show, he/she/they always seem to have the pillows stacked up high, at a ridiculaously steep angle, such that they seem to be sleeping with their heads up against a cliff.

And you also see cowboys and soldiers with pistols that contain hundreds of bullets.

>Still on the subject of bed-linen, do you guys still use sheets, blankets, and bedspreads, rather than just a duvet? What a pallaver! That Charlene Whats-her-name, who used to be "the Poison Dwarf" in "Dallas", was on a UK reality TV show where she marvelled at sleeping under a duvet for the first time.

I started noticing duvets in the mid 80's. Us men in the college dorms had sheets and blankets, while almost every woman had a duvet. I've been sleeping under them for about 15 years, because of my wife. Duvets, not college girls.