> In UK we say "to the next corner" sometimes (but not as a measurement, per se), I guess that would be equivalent? That would be 100% equivalent when counting

> In UK we say "to the next corner" sometimes (but not as a measurement, per se), I guess that would be equivalent? That would be 100% equivalent when counting blocks. "Go four blocks and then turn left" means "go left at the fourth intersection". There will inevitably be some interpretive ambiguity when one passes a T intersection that only goes right. Was that a block even though there was no available left turn? Did the person mean "pass three lefts and this one doesn't count because it's a right"? Nobody knows. It's why we name streets now. > It sounds like when you say "about a minute" that this would over-rule the "next intersection" part. When talking abstractly, yes. "A block's-worth of walking" cannot be interpreted with any particular block in mind, so one must use an imaginary platonic ideal of block length.