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Originally Posted by crich70
It can cause one to wonder too. I mean in the Sherlock Holmes stories for example Holmes and Watson live on the 1st floor though to reach their rooms a visitor has to walk up a flight of stairs. That's because their 1st floor is the same as the 2nd floor in apt. buildings over here in the U.S. Presumably public areas of 221B as well as Mrs. Hudson's own quarters were on the ground floor (which would be our 1st floor over here). lol.
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I've been pulling my hair out over this exact thing in recent weeks. I'm writing books set in London andwhen I do the floors correctly, editors in the US try to 'fix' the errors.