People in London do not rent apartments or office space or anything else. They “let” them.
All over the place I was seeing signs about letting, and it took me a while to figure it out. At first I thought it was about rest rooms, and that someone had painted out the “I” as a prank. And I thought, “Man, these English have a fetish about bathrooms!”
And then I wondered about blood letting, and thought maybe the is the new "old" wave in holistic medicine.
But then I slowly grasped what was really going on.