Why are stairs called 'stairs' when inside, but when you're outside they're called 'steps' ?
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Why do we call the places we drive parkways and the places we park driveways?
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The slope, as it was taught to me simply long ago is just this: "The rise over the run."  What this means is the distance of the 'y' coordinate, divided by the distance of the 'x' coordinate.\n\nTo give an example that's a little more easy to grasp, consider walking up a flight of stairs.  Measure the distance from the bottom floor to the floor at the top of the stairs, that height is your 'rise'.  Now, measure the distance between the first stair on the flight and the last stair that was climbed horizontally, and that is your 'run'.\n\nOnce you have those two measurements, you can calculate the slope by dividing the height of the floor above by the length taken up by the stairs to get there.  Draw the stairs as a right triangle.\n\nThe right side is the rise, the bottom is the run, and the 'hypotenuse' is the square root of the sum of both.  The 'slope', is the right side divided by the bottom.
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A backsplit home is a multi-level house with the staircase partway back into the house.  It is like a split entry, except there are rooms in front of the staircase.  They are often built to take advantage of a sloping lot.  The link below shows some house plans for backsplits.  Good luck.
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Why do peoples' parts have different names if they are all joined together?
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Stairs in houses usually have between seven and eight inches of rise on each step and 10 to 12 inches of projection (or tread) on each step.  That makes them comfortable to walk up and down.
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To make our language more interesting.  Other languages have them too.  In Spanish they are called "dichos" I believe.
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I don't know what the bootie call is, but I like the cha cha slide more than the electric. Care to explain the bootie call?
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Yes, it's true. But that's because in Egypt, the upper part of Egypt is called lower Egypt and the lower part is called upper Egypt. It is that way because Northern Egypt has a lower elevation than southern Egypt, which leads to the cause of the Nile river going up instead of down.
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"Back in the day", street names were often just given based on where the road went.  If the road went to London, it was called London Road.  If the road was the main street in the town, it was called Main Street.\n\nNowadays, property developers normally include street name proposals in the plans they put forward to the local councils for approval and planning permission
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wheres the stairs going to , the roof, or the Attic , or maybe the basement ???
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You will of course have more Potential Energy at the top of the stairs. PE(grav) = H x M x g, where H is your height relative to the ground, M is your mass, and g is the acceleration of gravity (approximately 10 meters persec persec on Earth). Thus the higher you are, the greater the gravitational potential energy. So as you walk down the stairs, you decreasing your height relative to the ground, and thus lowering your PE. So what happened to the potential energy? Did it just disappear? No, the potential energy got converted into kinetic energy (you walking down the stairs) and also heat.\n\nJust as an additional note: the reason you have gravitional Potential Energy at the top of the stairs is because there is a gravitional force acting on you by the Earth. Of course when you are on the ground, there is still gravitional force acting on you. So when we talk about potential energy, we are talking about the potential energy difference between the top of the stairs and the ground, not some absolute number.
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(Just in case this isn't a joke, and you really want to know!!)\n\n"Building" meaning the finished OBJECT was originally a NOUN form), and "Building" meaning the PROCESS is at root a VERB form.   The two forms have separate histories, and their "ing" suffixes were originally different.\n\nThe origins of the forms:\n\nThe NOUN form --  in Old English, the suffix -ung (sometimes -ing)  was often used to create nouns.   This exact ending is still seen in German nouns that end with -ung.    The noun can relate to the original verb ("build") in several ways.  Often it refers to something that is the RESULT of the process the verb refers to.\nhttp://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ung\nhttp://www.tu-chemnitz.de/phil/english/chairs/linguist/real/independent/eafrica/Diss_Diana/dissch4-3.htm\n\nThere are MANY examples of such words in Modern English.  Consider the following houns which refer to objects which, like "building", are ordinarily NOT "in process" when we speak of them:\npainting,  dwelling, saying,  writing,  gathering, bedding, roofing, sacking, clothing, earnings\n\n(There are other, related ways, that Old English formed nouns from verb roots.  One of these is the suffix -(at)ion, such as:  decision, isolation, explanation.  Another is  -ment:  establishment.)\n\n\nThe VERB form -- in Old English, participles ended with -ende (a form still found in German).\n\nIn Middle English these forms fell together.   That is, both the participle and noun ends became "-ing".   In fact, the use of this form  in expressions like "the building of" is a LATE development (whereas "building" as an object is a very old sort of form).\n\nFor the distinction in the suffixes, see Webster's (1913)\nhttp://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=261832
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I would say that it's a 'ward' or "precinct" or "district".  The terms are often used interchangeably.  And vary from city to city.
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In English, that happens a lot.  We have a White House but in most of the world, it would be a House White (Casablanca) but we do have Baton Rouge, LA which we should rename, Red Stick, LA.  We think the right way, everyone else is backward. We also drive on the right side of the road. OK?
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Pitch just means angle, or slope. You use a pitch when you build stairs, because you don't build them straight up and down. Same with a roof. It has a pitch so the rain rolls off.\nThe other questions are just arithmetic and you can do those yourself.
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If you want to get somewhere no matter the distance it always starts with taking the first step. As baby when you want to learn how to walk you always fall down when you take 1st step and you all ways try to take walk regard less of falling down so some how the other you have fall down and you have to start trying it. And that’s how you will learn some thing in your life.
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A century ago etymologists speculated that "story" came from some lost word "stairy," perhaps related to Gaelic staidhir, flight of stairs; or possibly from something along the lines of "stagery," derived from "stage." Others dismissed these as being obviously born of desperation, and for a time the experts settled on Old French estoree, a thing built. But doubts arose when researchers dug up such phrases as una historia octo fenestrarum, "a story of eight windows," from medieval Latin history books. Historia in Roman times meant history or story, and by the Middle Ages had acquired the meaning of "picture." So the charming notion arose that medieval folk were in the habit of installing rows of windows in their buildings called "stories" that were decorated with paintings or sculpture. The theory is that these stories, which for all anybody knows may actually have told a story, eventually came to signify a level of a building. Apparently as evidence of this practice, the authors of the Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins cite the fact that they once visited a Swiss-style hotel decorated along these lines in Lake Placid, New York. (Each floor was tricked out with a large hand-lettered slogan, such as "The only way to multiply happiness is to divide it.") At any rate, conjecture has now hardened into conviction. Believe at your own risk.\n\nhttp://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_249a.html