purplecthulhu

I'm reading a book at the moment by a US author that's set in Europe. He describes cities I know well, like London and Paris, reasonably well (though at times it sees as if he's reading things off a map), but persists in using the word 'block' to describe the relationship of buildings to streets eg. 'I walked two blocks to the baker's'. This grates with me, since I don't think the term block is that useful in descrbing European cities, but it wasn't a problem for a north american friend I discussed this with.

So I decided to put this to a poll. I just hope there's a way of correlating the answers to the two questions...

This is my first poll, so be gentle!

[Poll #262171]