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   From: ithinkiam@gmail.com   
      
   JJ  wrote:   
   > On Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:40:02 +0100, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2025/10/10 0:34:47, JJ wrote:   
   >>> On Wed, 8 Oct 2025 11:48:06 +0100, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   >>>> On 2025/10/8 9:35:15, Anton Shepelev wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Throw it out from the second or higher floor.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Is that a UK second or a US second?>   
   >>>   
   >>> Wait, what? Aren't both the same?   
   >>   
   >> Not when it comes to floors (storeys)! In British English, the ground   
   >> floor is called the ground floor, and the first floor is upstairs (with   
   >> the second floor, if there is one, above that, and so on); in American   
   >> English, the ground floor is the first floor, upstairs is the second   
   >> floor, and so on.   
   >   
   > Didn't know that, since I'm in Asia. So, thanks.   
   >   
   > Which one or do both still superstitious on having 13th floor?   
      
   Both. It's a common western phobia.   
      
   I've not seen it in buildings - in the UK buildings with more than 13   
   floors aren't that common - but many airlines don't have a row 13.   
      
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