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Super Joe
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prcscct wrote:Should we start talking about elevators without a 4 or 13 button but there are floors there.
Quote: "In Hong Kong, some high-rise residential buildings miss all floor numbers with "4", e.g. 4, 14, 24, 34 and all 40-49 floors. As a result, a building with 50th as the highest floor may actually have 36." :? :?

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Yeah, the Cantonese word for 4 is close sounding to the word for death, so it's unlucky. Pete :cheers:
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