“Tommy looked blank. "What's a flashlight?"

"You don't have flashlights?" Jessup said. "Jeeze! A cylinder, like, with batteries inside it, and a light bulb behind glass at one end--"

Tommy's blue eyes glinted dangerously. "We have a thing in Scotland that's a cylinder too. Very thin, made of wood, with graphite in the center. We call it a pencil."

Jessup hooted. "You think we don't have pencils?"

"You think we don't have flashlights?" Tommy snapped. "That's just American dialect. In the English language they're called torches."

Emily said mildly, "Actually we're Canadians.”