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Live and learn!
So the lift (sorry, elevator) buttons go G/1,2,3,4,5 where ours go G,1,2,3,4.
Naturally this strikes me as equally weird to our arrangement striking you. Errr, or something.
How many floors in this hypothetical building, BTW?
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How many floors in this hypothetical building?
Depends, you counting the basement(s)?
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How many floors in this hypothetical building, BTW?
What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
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What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
lemme guess . . .42?
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>Lemme guess . . .42?
Bingo! Unless, of course, one is triskaidekaphobic.
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>Lemme guess . . .42?
Bingo! Unless, of course, one is triskaidekaphobic.
Or merely working in the ordinary regular everyday base 10.
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you counting the basement(s)?
Nope.
Just:
G/1,2,3,4
Actually I'm going to have to check on the Brit interpretation of G,1,2,3!
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Bingo! Unless, of course, one is triskaidekaphobic.
You got it, sjm. I used to work on the 14th floor in NYC and it always confused me.
Meanwhile, I'm wondering if the US is the *only country where the first floor is called the ground floor. After having lived in Europe and Brazil, that still confuses me, too.
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Does Canada count as a country [I mean that jokingly of course]? The floor appellation is the same here as in the US. With a strange exception - at both universities I'm familiar with, in very different parts of the country, the ground floor is the 200 floor. So the next one up has rooms number 300, and so on. The 100 floor is the basement. Argh!
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The floor appellation is the same here as in the US
I was in Montreal a couple of weeks back and they used RDC for Rez de Chaussee!
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