A cool guide on Mattress Dimensions and Bed Sizes
A cool guide on Mattress Dimensions and Bed Sizes
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Why on earth do Americans call a single bed ‘twin’?
Because you can put two in a room.
Need Mace Windu saying this to the Jedi Council
Unfortunately, Mace is the council making stupid-ass decisions.
Then call it a half twin.
That makes no sense! I'd say that this greatly depends on the size of the room. Unsless rooms have standard sizes in the US!?
Don’t forget that you can stack them and make bunk beds too.
Why arent they called triplets then?
Because you can’t reasonably get three in a room whereas you can reasonably get two in the majority of bedrooms.
You could stack 3 though.
I looked it up to put an end to this. American hotels call them twin beds because they were a matching set of beds put in a room.
That makes good sense! Thanks!
According to this:
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/27810/why-do-americans-call-single-beds-twin-beds
In the 1950s, a single was as wide as the average person's shoulders. A twin was a single & a half. A double was two singles. A queen was a single & a twin. A king was 2 twins (or 3 singles). Nowadays, the single is forgotten, so everyone is confused. When I was a child in the 1950's, my bed was a twin and you could put two first graders in it side by side. My best friend had a single bed, so when I slept over at her house, I slept in her bed and she slept on the floor.
EDIT: I don't think that that's correct, though, because while beds have become larger, it sounds like the twin was very much around in the 1950s.
https://www.ebohemians.com/a-guide-to-antique-bed-sizes-understanding-the-history-and-variations/
Single beds, also known as twin beds, are the smallest antique bed size and the most common size for children’s bedrooms. They were widely used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and measured around 39 inches wide and 75 inches long. However, some antique single beds may be shorter, measuring around 72 inches long.
I heard it was because siblings shared rooms and they had two beds in the room, hence twins.