…..If you were building another floor of flats on top of this block, would you refer to it as the third floor or the fourth floor?
A quick silly question…..
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Third floor. In the UK the ground floor is always refereed to as ground, then first, second, third etc beyond that. Of course there may be some slight variations, where the 'ground level' may be split due to the local ground levels but then you might have say 'lower ground' & 'upper ground' for instance. But in this example there are no such variables.
The US call the ground floor the first floor but they're stupid.
The US call the ground floor the first floor but they're stupid.
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I agree and, worse, they tend to mangle the English language. Either that, or they're very poor spellers!
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I suppose my English is rather 18th Century, probably because I read M R James ghost stories.I’m going to have to mark you down for that post for the overuse of commas!
When I read some modern publications, I sometimes end up with a head full of criticisms of their language to the extent that I have forgotten what they're talking about.
I don't know how valid this article is: https://frenchly.us/first-floor-fra...tes back to,therefore became the second floor.
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