Just Post

English is my second language. I use both.

If this was a taller building, the terms would match up once the Americans skip referencing a 13th floor

I live under the British system (Australia) of floor naming.

So annoying.

The benefit of starting the number at 1 is the majority of apartment blocks and hotels can have 4 digit room numbers with the first digit representing the floor it's on.

E.g. room 4201 is on 4th floor and 1691 is on 1st floor

Where are the stairs going in that picture? They just make everything more confusing. They seem to go exactly between two levels and not on the bottom level like a normal-ass building.

do Brits skip 13?

I wish it was this clear cut in the states. Motherfucking builders treat this like guidelines and I'm never sure what button I need to press to be able to walk outside.

Same thing in Spain

The Americans might be right on this one. Perhaps if we give them this one they will give us the metric system.

The simple difference between ordinal and cardinal numbering.

The brits got it right.