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First floor vs ground floor, usage origin - English Language Usage . . . The floor above it is called the first floor, the floor above that is the second floor, and so on In American English, the floor which is level with the ground is called the first floor, the floor above it is the second floor, and so on
grammatical number - How to refer to a specific floor of a building . . . 0 Technically, the f in this context would not be capitalized The same situation occurs when the floors of a building or vessel have non numerical designations, like the 'noble floor' that sometimes refers to the main formal spaces being at second or third floor level (1st or 2nd floor level in the European system), neither word gets capitalized
How to refer to an apartment on a specific floor? It would be quite unusual to require the floor number as well as apartment number Usually the appartments in the building will all have unique numbers So it could be the first floor has apartments 1,2,3 and the second floor has apartments 4,5,6 Or, more common nowadays, the first floor would have 11,12,13 and the second floor would have 21,22,23 Or 2A, 2B, 2C
What do you call underground floors in AmE and BrE? But I wonder what American English and British English call 'the first basement floor right below the first floor of a building' and 'the second basement floor beneath the first basement floor'
word choice - x-stor (e)y or x-floor or x-level house building . . . Just beware Americans and British count floors differently, British have "Ground floor, 1st floor, 2nd floor " whereas Americans (if memory serves) start at 1st floor for "ground" or "street" level and count up from there
stay on at the second floor ? | UsingEnglish. com ESL Forum Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), a rather more relevant source than google for our purposes, gives 881 citations for 'on the second floor' and 17 for 'at' the second floor'