Many AC fans, including inexpensive floor models, have a rotary speed control which rotates from **OFF** to **HIGH** to **MED** to **LOW**. Since the switch does not rotate 360°, you have to rotate it backwards to shut it off. This has always slightly annoyed me, because it appears to make no logical sense to have to speed the fan up to turn it off.

Why are the speed settings from fastest to slowest? This design seems counter-intuitive, but I assume there is a good reason because the design is so common.