Re: What does "single mother" mean to you?

On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:41:10 GMT, the Omrud
<usenet.omrud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Nick Spalding wrote:
Skitt wrote, in <h6kr7o$bqa$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
on Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:54:12 -0700:

Mike Barnes wrote, in small part:

I quite like the system they have in (at least some parts of) France,
where the number is approximately the distance in metres from the end
of the road. With odd numbers on the left and even on the right, as is
usually the case in the UK.
Which end of the road is that? Which side are the odd numbers on if you
face the other way? Our house, with and even number, is on the left side of
the street, but not if I come from the other direction, unless I do that
walking backwards.

Odd on the left walking in the direction of increasing numbers.

Conventionally, numbers 1 and 2 are at the end of the road which is
closer to the town centre.

I reckon even Brits are aware of the typical left-pondian
numbering system wherein most towns have a central startng point
(or "origin" in graphing terms)and defined right angled axes with
house numbers increasing in distance from the axes. This is
convenient for someone looknmg for an address since, for example,
the 2600 block will be at about the same point on all streets
parallel to a given street. So if you are at 2612 on Jones Street
and you are looking for 2630 Smith Street you know that you
destination lies a few streets over, even if Smith Street is
actuall on a coupld of blocks long. Basically a sort of grid
system.

San Francisco uses the system of numbering from the downtown end
of a street, so there is no relationship between the numbers on
one street and another parallel street. I lived in adjoining Daly
City and it used the same system as SF. In fact, for streets
crossign the city/county line it continued the SF numbers.

About a month ago I was in the New York city area and the
numbering system in Queens confused us at first. But it seemed
pretty simple once we caught on: a street address like 111-37
meant the place was in the block between 111th Street and 112th
Street.

Seattle just plain confuses me without a map.

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