On Tue, 1 Jan 2019, Andrew Bernard wrote: > American floors: 11 12 14 15 > English floors: 11 12 13 14 > > I saw this a lot when I worked in new York.
I think this custom has persisted in the USA because large buildings need to have "mechanical" or "service" floors not directly visited by the regular occupants, and if you're going to have the elevator skip a floor anyway, you might choose it to be the one with a number some people want to avoid. In East Asia, where the number 4 is similarly considered unlucky, the number 4 is sometimes skipped - and I've even seen a building where the floor numbering skipped both 4 and 13. -- Matthew Skala msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca People before tribes. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
