Death Floor

As you may know, and as my mom has so often points out, many buildings in the US lack a 13th floor because of superstition. In Mandarin speaking countries there is a similar omission: the 4th floor. In Chinese 4 and death are the same word just with different tones, so it is unappealing to say I live on the death floor. In hospitals especially the floors go right from 3rd to 5th. In addition, the 5th floor is often the baby floor because it is better to bring new life on the real 4th floor than to have the really sick people be cursed.