something not mentioned so far relates to buildings and where you enter them from street level.
Now we quite logically call that "Ground Level" not first floor ;
Although to cause confusion the Heath Hospital in Cardiff has an Upper Ground floor, a ground floor and a lower ground floor plus a basement and floors 1 to 4 (not 1 through 4)
Yeah, you call the second floor the first floor. Sorry Mike but I have to call you 'wrong' on this one. If you have a two floor house, and remove the first floor, are you not left with (gets out calculator and......) zero floors? Where is the first step on the ladder, the second one up? What about a multi- story building, is the 'first' floor on top of the 'other first' floor?
Brian
7600
is this seventy six hundred or seven thousand six hundred ?
what about 7633?
Also our billion has been devalued. It used to be a million million but more recently we have adopted the US convention of a thousand million. Same goes for a trillion which used to be a million million million
What?? Where did it go? You lost a million, and nobody is out there looking for it??
I've always called them roundabouts. Never called them rotaries.
something not mentioned so far relates to buildings and where you enter them from street level.
Now we quite logically call that "Ground Level" not first floor ;
Although to cause confusion the Heath Hospital in Cardiff has an Upper Ground floor, a ground floor and a lower ground floor plus a basement and floors 1 to 4 (not 1 through 4)
and why do you insist on calling the liquid fuel used in vehicles "gas"?
A gas powered car is on that runs on something like hydrogen or even LPG
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7600
is this seventy six hundred or seven thousand six hundred ?
what about 7633?
Also our billion has been devalued. It used to be a million million but more recently we have adopted the US convention of a thousand million. Same goes for a trillion which used to be a million million million
As already stated, either would do here in the US.
But seeing as you mention million, billion, etc., here is a difference:
In the US, we would call ten million dollars (or tiddlywinks, whatever) "ten million". I have noticed a British to refer to it as 'millions' and so the quote would be "ten millions". In the US, the multiple is already implied once one has gone beyond two (or apparently, the third floor of a UK dwelling, assuming a building with a 'first floor' is a single story place).
And by the way, as you call a rental apartment a 'flat', does that distinguish it from something else? Do Brits. live in round places sometimes? Bent places? Not sure why the word "flat" as a name for a rented dwelling space. ?? Were most of them crooked in the olden' days?
Brian
"Gas" doesn't mean "a gas", in this context, it is just short for "gasoline"
If you told me you filled your car with gas I wouldn't think you farted in your gashole.or trumped
I know that but there is a potential for confusion
Ah it appears the word "flat" may come from the old english "flett" meaning floor and relates to the living accommodation being all on one level.
Why are "apartments" called that as they aren't "apart" from anything
And by the way, as you call a rental apartment a 'flat', does that distinguish it from something else? Do Brits. live in round places sometimes? Bent places? Not sure why the word "flat" as a name for a rented dwelling space. ?? Were most of them crooked in the olden' days?