The difference between storey and story (grammar lesson)


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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 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.

With 160 storeys, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai is the tallest building in the world.
(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.)