Story and Storey
In American English, the noun 'story' means 'narrative' or 'level of a
building'. However, in British English, 'level of a building' is written 'storey'.
The plural of story is stories. The plural of storey is storeys.
Examples:
Did you hear
the story about about bungee jumper who died because he miscalculated the height
of the each storey before diving off a building?
(storey: )
(storey:
In the US, there is no such word as storey.)
Beowulf is
an epic traditional good-versus-evil story. Beowulf battles three monsters throughout the story.

The Taipei 101
in Taiwan will be overtaken as the tallest building in the world by the Burj
Dubai. Taipei 101 is named after its 101 storeys. It is 449m tall.
(storeys: )
(storeys:
would be written '101 stories')
Select the correct version:
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FIRST FLOOR OR GROUND FLOOR?
Americans call the ground-level floor of a building the 'first floor', but the British call it the
'ground floor'. (The star on the lift buttons below indicates
the ground-level floor.)

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