storey and story - the difference

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STOREY / STORY

Story means 'narrative'. Story also means 'level of a building' in the US. However, in the UK, 'level of a building' is written 'storey'.

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:

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.)

Associated lessons:

What are nouns?
List of easily confused words