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In German, numbers are spoken from left to right, as in English, but ones and tens are always swapped. So 23 becomes three, twenty, and 135 becomes one hundred, five, and thirty:
- Achter Stock (8)
- Achtzehnter Stock (18)
- Achtundzwanzigster Stock (28)
- Dreizehnter Stock (13)
- Dreiundzwanzigster Stock (23)
- Dritter Stock (3)
- Einundzwanzigster Stock (21)
- Elfter Stock (11)
- Erdgeschoss (0)
- Erster Stock (1)
- …
Oh, and the first floor is called the ground floor and is not counted.
The UK also has the off-by-one floor numbering.
Also a nursery rhyme with the line “four and twenty blackbirds”!
That is only one and ten blackbirds.
There are probably some that you can’t see.
Kinda the point of a spy plane
