Why do people call the ground the floor?

That’s certainly what I understood, the ground is outside, the floor is inside.

I fully agree - floor is inside, ground is outside

Agree, but if a police officer shouted that at me I'd certainly hit the deck ?

Maybe they are a bunch of drunks who don’t knows their @rses from their elbows?

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Agree, but if a police officer shouted that at me I'd certainly hit the deck ?

???
As you’re a women ( I assume) you are certainly more likely to be shouted at by a police officer to hit the deck and especially if not wearing a football scarf. Oh damn- this is Pedants Corner <slinks off promising not to mention MM and PH>

Not always indoors, for example forest floor, ocean floor, canyon floor.

I think they grew up watching too many American cop series.

Why do people get het up about other people using what they regard as the 'wrong' word, even when the meaning of what they are saying is perfectly clear?

I speak as someone who has used the word floor when I meant ground, when I would normally have used the word ground but floor is the word that came out.

'Floor' instead of 'ground' irritates me, too.

Using the wrong word by accident is a different matter, but on a lot of the police programmes it's deliberate.

The voice in the lift of my John Lewis says both, "Ground Floor".

Oh dear, I’m one of those bad people.?
If my DGS’s drops a sweet outside, I say, “Don’t eat that, it’s been in the floor!”Riverwalk I use ocean floor and forest floor, or even bed instead of ground and have heard ? people say, “Hit the deck!” when there’s no decking there and the weren’t intending violence to the deck anyway.

My flat is on the "ground floor" but advertised as first floor ? A first floor is above the ground ?-----but it isn't !
So which is it, ground floor or first floor ?
Ground floor in buildings gives me a picture of the cellar . Obviously it's on a level with the ground and not beneath.

And I heard a politician saying it this morning on TV. My feeling is that it's fine to say first floor or third floor, when you are describing the level of a building, as it's inside. I've got my full pedant hat on about using the word floor for something outside, it just grates with me so much that I'm looking for it now.

I often correct myself as I find myself doing that.

EllenVannin our French apartment was on the first floor, the floor beneath was called Rez-de-chaussée-at street level.
It’s as confusing as school years in the UK. In your second year in school, you go into Year 1.

I find it really annoying. Floor is inside. Ground is outside. Why not just use the correct word?

It annoys Mumsnetters too. Their thread has more posts than ours. Come on GN.

I’m more ranty about a pack of cheese that just hit the floor (kitchen, hope that’s allowed) after I’d tried to ‘tear here’.
I don’t care if people say floor or ground and use deck too.

I want to know where ground almonds come from. Have they been on the floor?

They grow in the ground ???

On architectural drawings you may see floor plans - labelled ground floor, first floor, second floor etc and you may also see a ground plan, which will include the outside space beyond the ground floor. It is helpful to be precise.

It’s a Cheshire thing.
Our English mistress at school, who was in fact Scottish, would occasionally have a little rant about it, wondering why Cheshire people referred to the ground as the ‘floor’, as she’d never come across that usage anywhere else.
But why would it annoy anyone?

I think I use either.
I've not really ever thought about what's correct.
It's not as if I'm a surveyor.

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