American Reacts to 10 Ways Brits and Americans Use Numbers Very Differently

American Reacts to 10 Ways Brits and Americans Use Numbers Very Differently
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[qazatqazah]

I've seen that video at least three times by now, and it just occurred to me that he doesn't go into one important difference: floor numbers.
Where in Europe the ground floor is often numbered "floor zero" (or denoted by some letter(s) like "G" for "ground"), in America it is always counted as "floor one".

[Shoomer]

The military use the 24 hour clock so that there's no confusion. It's easy to mix up 1am and 1pm in communications. But you're not going to mix up "zero one hundred hours" with "thirteen hundred hours" over a radio.

[raystewart]

UK
Even Numbers are on one side of the street whilst odd numbers are on the other side of the same street. This allows more homes / buildings to have fewer numbers in their address. PLUS - We can use our Post Codes in google maps to find the street, road you searching for, not so for US Zip Codes.

[terryloveuk]

Quite often in the UK, odd numbers will be on one side, (1, 3, 5, ..., ) of street/road and even numbers, (2, 4, 6 ...) on the other.

[lottie]

Our UK postcodes are way more accurate, to just a few houses in one street, than your zipcodes in America where they cover a huge area. Check out Girl Gone London if you want to react to her more in-depth explanation about the differences. It's really good, think you'd find it interesting.

[pascalnitsche]

A billion is a million squared - it literally means bi-million. That extends to a trillion (tri-million) and so on … a thousand million is a millard and a thousand billion in a billiard and so on … fun fact a billion is often called a yard in financial contexts to avoid confusion with million.
Nearly all European languages except for English use the long system though … English truly is the odd one out.

[brigidsingleton]

We say nil for none - "nil by mouth" meaning a patient in hospital is due for a procedure so not allowed to eat or drink (except to swallow meds) before the procedure to avoid the possibility of choking under anaesthetic.
Noughts and crosses makes sense, whereas 'tic tac toe' definitely doesn't!!

[onissius]

- 24 is more efficient than the 12 + 12 and provide less miss understanding. If it is too hard for you to add 12 to an hour, remember this (12 is 10 + 2). So 1PM become 1+10+2 => 13, see it is not this hard.
- And please, please, use GMT time when you speak about international time. If you live in GMT+10 zone, it is easy for you to convert your time in GMT. So for all the world (who know there time zone) it is easy to translate what time you are speaking about. And prevent the 95, 79% of the world to have to make 2 x a translate.
You have 14 different time zone (AKST, PST, HNP, MST, HNR, PDT, CST, HNC, EST, HNE, AST, HNA, EDT and HAE) !
I play an online game based on California and they only use Pacific time when they use time. So everytime i repply on they forum i pick up a random time zone. So they have to do the 2 translate time zone.
- For date, the logic told you to use "years/month/day" OR "day/month.years" but why "month/day/year" ?

[Jeni]

Example of nought:

“He worked really hard all day painting the outside of the house, but it was all for nought because it rained all night.”

[palantir]

Dutch post codes use 4 numbers and two letters.
There’s a village in the Netherlands that uses the American house number system in a few newer districts.

All mobile phone numbers start with 06. Every phone number (land and mobile) is ten numbers long.


You use the decimal point in numbers but we in Europe (except the UK) use the decimal comma.
We write 1234, 56 (or 1.234, 56) while you write 1, 234.56 (twelve hundred thirty four.fifty six).

We don’t have something like a billion. We use miljard (1000xmillion)

[pureholy]

A post code covers only a few addresses, some large buildings have their own post code or even more than one. The houses on the other side of the road to us have a different postcode. This makes it very easy for the Post Office to sort the mail using sorting machines.

[beldin]

For the date system, the USAsian one makes just no sense at all, but .. as a programmer i would say the really best one would be YYYY.MM.DD .. because in that way it is proper SORTABLE !!!

[msgeorgejourney]

The easiest way to explain the zipcode being longer because the "grid number" is factored in. Which why the house numbers are shorter.

[framegote]

Here in The Netherlands phone numbers for landlines have an area code, because that's where the phone is. As a mobile phone is MOBILE, there's no need for an area code, so all those phone numbers start with 06. Then about time: here when it's 01:30 we say (translated) it's half two, because it's not yet fully two. The number of the hour starts even earlier! 01:20 is called (again translated) 10 before half two; but 01:15 is called quarter past one (kwart over 1). There's another difference which isn't even mentioned in this video: we write for example € 3, 15 or a bigger number: 6.123.000, 00 using a point between the three numbers of thousands and millions and a comma when the whole number stops and fractions (or cents) begin as opposed to the US, who use them the other way around.

[ErikLeppen]

Just a random addition: in 24-hour time, the first hour after midnight is not "24:xx" but "0:xx". So midnight is 0:00. To me, the AM/PM system just doesn't make sense to me because the switch between AM and PM and the switch from 12 back to 1 are an hour apart!

[nedludd]

Kindergarten is not year one of school because until around the late 60's it was far from universal. Official school was year 1. Even now a few states don't have laws requiring it but it is still applied.

[babalonkie]

Dont worry...

Whilst the UK and the USA has different terms for "0"... we both are jointly baffled by the furry/fluffy "0" on screen lol

[ilonkagootjes]

I was today years old when I found out, not all American phonenumbers start with 555. Probably says alot about where the tv shows where made. 😅

[joyridgway]

In the area in the UK where I was brought up in, older people would say 9 20 and 5 for 9.25, etc. I think the area had a number of cotton mills, which were noisy.

[danellis-jones]

The date thing is ONLY in America. No other country writes dates like that. Same for imperial measurements. Europe used metric. Along with literally every other country but the USA