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   From: this@ddress.is.invalid   
      
   J. P. Gilliver  wrote:   
   > On 2025/10/10 0:34:47, JJ wrote:   
   > > On Wed, 8 Oct 2025 11:48:06 +0100, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   > >> On 2025/10/8 9:35:15, Anton Shepelev wrote:   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> Throw it out from the second or higher floor.   
   > >>   
   > >> Is that a UK second or a US second?>   
   > >   
   > > Wait, what? Aren't both the same?   
   >   
   > Not when it comes to floors (storeys)! In British English, the ground   
   > floor is called the ground floor, and the first floor is upstairs (with   
   > the second floor, if there is one, above that, and so on); in American   
   > English, the ground floor is the first floor, upstairs is the second   
   > floor, and so on.   
      
     I think it's not so much a question of British English versus American   
   English, but about the US versus (most of?) the rest of the world.   
      
     And you'll be pleased to know that Google Translate said 'ground   
   floor' when I asked to translate the Dutch 'begane grond'! :-) (My   
   'Windows display language' is 'English (United Kingdom)' so hopefully   
   Google Translate takes that into account.)   
      
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