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Not sure if it applies in this instance but some customs have it so the ground floor is not counted and the second floor is referred to as the first and so on.
by pests 14y ago
Not sure if it applies in this instance but some customs have it so the ground floor is not counted and the second floor is referred to as the first and so on.
- duaneb 14y agoClassic off-by-one error.
- rogerbinns 14y agoI'm British and that is what we do. But that is the label applied to each floor in the lift (some places omit the 13th floor label) and some have floors below ground. However that doesn't change how many floors a building has. The article is written by an American residing in the US about a building in the US so using American conventions would seem appropriate.
- dyno12345 14y agoThey would still call it a two story building