CHRIS KIDD wrote:

Probably the US/other mis-use of 'first floor' - for the UK people this
means 1/100th of a 100 story building - that's a lot (for the US it's a
few mm - sorry 1/10ths inches on the ground floor)...


We can sometimes take it too far, as with the old Met Office building at
Bracknell where the Richardson Wing had an Entrance Floor with a Ground
Floor above that. It was not until you'd reached the US-style Third Floor
that you found the First Floor.

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