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This is a bigger culture shock than the metric vs imperial system to me. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What is a single floor home called then? A flat?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A flat is an apartment.

I (American living in London for more than a decade) don't think I've ever seen a detached single story house before. There might be a name but they're rare enough that I've never heard it before.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bungalow. I don't think you'll find many in London.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Interesting, thanks. Bungalow in the US would usually mean something like quaint. Where as you can also have a "ranch" house in the US which is a single story usually with a large open floor plan.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A bungalow

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

And yes it is weird.

A bangla house was one in the Bengali style. Those were single story buildings the colonial British encountered in India.

So it became the posh way of saying "single story house" and then everyone started using it. Because it's better to say you're choosing not to build extra stories than saying you can't afford them.