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Do "2-story" homes in England actually have 3 floors?
10 1 ReplyThink of it like a 0-indexed array: [a, b, c, d]
a is at position 0, b is at position 1…
This array has 4 elements despite the last element only being at index position 3.
A ‘2-story’ home would be a house with 2 different elevations:
[elevation a, elevation b]
If you want to refer to a specific floor, you need to use the index, which is 0/ground for elevation a, and 1/first floor for elevation b.
6 1 ReplyNo. Think of the number as representing how many levels you have to go up.
If you go one level up, then you're on the floor of level 1. etc.
A two-story home would mean you have to go two level up to get to the roof... So it has two floors. i.e. Level 0 and level 1.
6 0 ReplySo when I go in a building and go up 15 floors I'm on the 16th floor there, but I'm on the 14th here. Okay.
1 0 ReplyWhat is a single floor home called then? A flat?
1 0 ReplyA flat is an apartment.
I (American living in London for more than a decade) don't think I've ever seen a detached single story house before. There might be a name but they're rare enough that I've never heard it before.
3 0 ReplyBungalow. I don't think you'll find many in London.
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A bungalow
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We use the same thing in Australia as the British and if someone told me they have a 2 story home I would think ground floor and first floor
12 0 ReplyBut if they said "my bedroom is on the 2nd floor" what would you think?
1 0 ReplyHey! Common ground.
3 0 ReplyWait til you find out what language they speak...
2 0 ReplyBritish English and something as unintelligible as Austrian German, but it's called Australian English.
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