When it comes to sleeping habits there are two significant differences between the British people and the German culture. Firstly, naming the particular size of a bed. Secondly, the way you use the Bettdecke (duvet) while sleeping. The English language has a variety of names to denote particular bed sizes: Cot, Single, Small Double or Three Quarter, Double, Queen, King, Super King, etc. The German language, however, is more pragmatic in this way. We don’t have any nice-sounding words for the various bed sizes. We simply specify the sizes of beds, for example, by using either measurements or conventional adjectives such as klein (small) and groß (large).