Posted: Sep 23, 2017 10:24 pm
The_Piper wrote:surreptitious57 wrote:I have just been watching Numberphile about British sayings that confuse Americans
2001 : We pronounce it Two Thousand And One. They pronounce it Two Thousand One
8844 : We pronounce it Double Eight Double Four. They pronounce it Eighty Eight Forty Four or Eight Eight Four Four
Americans living here do not understand how we can have single digit house numbers. How odd and even house numbers
are not always symmetrical. Why office blocks are very often called House and the address is written as One instead of I
And why we do not have a I00 Pound Note as they have a I00 Dollar Bil
I'd say Two thousand and one, eight thousand and forty four (some room for improvement there). We have single house numbers too. Instead of odds and evens on the same side, we have half-numbers and/or letters. Unless you meant that they skip numbers, in which ours do too. I'm a former mailman, I've seen it all when it comes to funny addresses. At least I hope I have.
I don't know what you mean as office block, maybe cubicle. Americans in different parts of the country use different words and phrases too, it's not that difficult to understand.
I used to live in Orange County in Southern California where the whole area is a bunch of little towns that grew into each other. The streets have some strange jags to accommodate joining them between towns. Mostly the numbers have some consistency, but I had to go to an address where each side of a street had a different name and completely different numbers for blocks. It was very confusing.