On Sat, 23 May 2020 01:37:45 +0100, williamwright wrote:

On 21/05/2020 22:19, Chris Green wrote:

Er, in UK English the 'first floor' *is* upstairs! :-)

Most houses have a 'ground floor' and a 'first floor' in the UK. Yes,
I know it's not very logical but that's the way it is.

I had terrible confusion when working for CNN and taking verbal
instructions.

The other two things that annoy me are "next wednesday" and 6/8/2020. Both can apparently be ambiguous, but I always use the logical one.