What’s crazy is that it’s not consistent by language. Obviously we have British/Aussie/Kiwi vs US/Canadian English, but the Spanish speaking world is also fractured.
And not even by otherwise closely related geographical regions. The Nordics, one of the world’s most internally cooperative group of countries, have Sweden and Denmark using the English British system, and Finland and Norway using the British American system.
Well that one you would kinda expect, as each Antarctic base is built by a different country - and complicated by some of the buildings being on stilts.
Distribution of the two (pink is mixed) from Wikipedia:
I am from Baltics and always assumed naming 1st floor ground floor was weird. Turns out we are the weird ones.
Make up your mind, Antarctica.
What’s crazy is that it’s not consistent by language. Obviously we have British/Aussie/Kiwi vs US/Canadian English, but the Spanish speaking world is also fractured.
And not even by otherwise closely related geographical regions. The Nordics, one of the world’s most internally cooperative group of countries, have Sweden and Denmark using the
EnglishBritish system, and Finland and Norway using theBritishAmerican system.Edit: I’m a dumbass
Did you mean to say American for one of those systems? England is part of Great Britain.
I did indeed, thanks for pointing it out.
Antarctica is mixed… that means there are at least two multifloor buildings there… and they couldn’t agree on it
Well that one you would kinda expect, as each Antarctic base is built by a different country - and complicated by some of the buildings being on stilts.
Canada should be mixed or blue.
US, Russia, and China on the same side is weird to see.
Australia should be mixed. I’ve seen elevators labelled both ways, and personally I’ve referred to the ground floor as the 1st my entire life here.