Re: Bilingual in Europe versus USA


"Giovanni Drogo" <drogo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Martin Bienwald wrote:
Giovanni Drogo schrieb:

Here house numbers increment by 1, occasionally with gaps.

They should increment by 2 if you have odd numbers on one, even numbers
on
the other side.

Of course you are right, but I was thinking of 2n or 2n+1 with n
incrementing by 1 :-)

In older Berlin streets, house numbers do increment by one, wandering up
on
one side of the street, then down the other side again (so the highest
numbered house is just opposite number 1).

I've seen that in London on the Strand, what I found confusing was that
some streets did that, some other did usual odd-even, and some blocks
had independent numbering ... I just thought "SPQB".



I learned this while researching my family in what is now Slovakia.
Evidently, the houses were numbered as they were built, chronologically. 1
gets built, 2 gets built, and if someone builds inbetween them, that's 3. It
does make sense in a small village, but that was the days before mail
service, etc. Everyone knew where your house was anyway.


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