ground floor is on the ground, first floor is the one above that, what's to argue ?
USians treat ground and first floor as the same thing, so our first floor is their second floor, etc.
So where do they put their ground then? In the AIR??????
really ?
that's just odd
hmmmm, ground -- 'first' ~ I can see more why babel thought his ideas were ok
I dunno, why not ask one of our transatlantic posters. :)
Heh, I actually thought this was one of the things that everyone knew.
I've seen one of those 'faces of death' videos where this student bungee jumps off a highrise but didn't realise that the building's 1st floor was the ground floor.
He created quite a mess on the pavement.
pretty fucking dumb setting a bungee to a depth where it's only one storey from the ground at the end anyway, I'd have thought?
I never realized that there was a different school of thought on ground/first floor until Daniel mentioned it yesterday when he walked me to work (we saw an apartment with the first floor to rent...and he asked if that meant the ground floor)
I have no idea why it's like that over here. The ground floor has always been the first floor. Even when it's called the ground floor, the next one up is invariably called the second floor.