I'm prepared to be flamed but I get very irritated by people referring to "the floor" when they mean the ground.

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Go on.

Roast me.

I don't care.

I hear people referring to "the floor" all the blooming time when they mean "the ground".

For example:- "I was walking along the road and I dropped my purse on the floor

No you didn't - you dropped it on the ground.

Yes, I know I'm being horrible but I can't help it.

I've moved to a place where everyone says roof when they mean ceiling. I'm wondering if, in the not too distant past, the roof and ceiling were one and the same (very rural and old building standards/expectations are terrible).

I haven't RTFT but, floor; inside, ground; outside.

That is all you need to know.

'I dropped my purse' would suffice in either case. No need to qualify really.

'I dropped my purse' would suffice in either case. No need to qualify really

What are you on about? It depends entirely on the point of that conversation, and there is almost always a need to qualify.

How and why Cork.

Them's some very specific conversations you're having.

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A pelvic floor is inside?

I'm in my bed.

I'm also Scottish and go through the house, up the stairs and have a mother who didn't "come up the Clyde in a barra"

I can lend a professional angle to this. I work in the construction industry and can confirm a floor is internal. Decking is NOT flooring, it is decking.

And a ceiling is not a roof. And a sink is not a basin.

Flooring / floor covering goes on a floor (the floor is made of concrete or timber). The floor goes on the ground. That's when it becomes internal.

It is most definitely sea-bed, not sea floor. The forest has a floor because there is always an exception to the rule. So, unless the purse was dropped in a forest, it was dropped on the ground. The question is, if there is no-one there to see it, does it really happen, and did the bear pick it up?

That gets me too floor is inside, ground is outside. Also annoys me when people call a street a road and vice Versa!

Ugh. Worse still is visa-versa.

And don't get me started about sink and basin. The number of people on home improvement programmes who, when describing how their new bathroom will look, say "...and the sink will be just here". Trying to be all pretentious with their Villeroy and Boch but showing their true lack of style.

I remember being about 10 and suddenly realising there was a difference between ground and floor. I felt extremely enlightened.

It annoys me when people misuse entrance and exit.

Entrance is the way in. Exit is the way out. Of course they can be the same depending on where you are, like currently my front door would be my exit from the house but to anyone outside it would be the entrance to the house, but I've heard people talking about the "entrance to out of here" and the "exit into that room."

Floor and ground are NOT the same thing. A tent can have a floor but it is a covering for the ground.

"What about balconies?" asked a smartarse. I punched* him in the face.

*By "punched", I mean "explained that a balcony floor is an extension of the internal floor"

Does anyone get annoyed when people say sink when they mean the basin? To me, sinks are in kitchens, and basins are in bathrooms - you wash pans in former and hands in latter. Except you can wash your hands in the sink, but never your pans in the basin....

Oops, cross post - sorry

What's ths difference between a sink and a bison?

A bison is to wash your face in.

(Couldn't resist)

No it's an animal???

Yip my family in Yorkshire say 'floor' but i say ground (scottish)

If i said to them ' your coffee is ben the kitchen on the bunks ' they wouldnt have a clue what i was talking about ' in the kitchen on the worktop' 😂

Also specific about going to my bed lol and the big light thing - we say that too

@Sunnysky2016 true but also it's a (not very good) joke punning on "basin to wash your face in".

I say: "is it cold out?"

Apparently I'm wrong. I do, technically know, that it's outside, but.... hey, I'm Canadian.

Agree it's floor indoor and ground outside.
Ground = concrete, grass, mud etc

Floor = man made stuff inside four walls.

I say in ma bed too or going to ma bed.

Only thing that makes me twitchy is people ditching two seasons of the year when discussing the weather.(spring and Autumn).
It's April/may and they complain summer is a bit shit same for August/sept ooh winters here.