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Elevating Etiquette

The first floor you walk on in a building is Floor 1. I’m in the UK. It throws me, having lived here since birth. Yes, I know it’s the ground floor as it’s on the ground, so as it is a floor, it is Floor 1. Up a flight of stairs, that’s Floor 2. One more, floor 3. A three-story building has three floors (ground, 1, 2), so call the floors by the American numbers.