Wikipedia is just flat wrong on the history here. Structural engineers created the phrase, and they meant type V, not five stories. It’s true since the term be

Wikipedia is just flat wrong on the history here. Structural engineers created the phrase, and they meant type V, not five stories. It’s true since the term became popular people have misunderstood, and it happens to match the number of permissible stories in current code, but that’s not what structural engineers meant when they started using the phrase.