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by evanb 760 days ago
DC is divided into 4 quadrants, and to lift degeneracies they come after street/avenue/road/place etc in an address. So many GPS pronounce 815 V St NW as "eight-fifteeen V saint northwest" instead of "... street ...". Makes me laugh every time.
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Utah gets particularly funny with the coordinate grids used out here. I've heard everything from one thousand three hundred and fifty five east two thousand south to literal readouts of the digits