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jim_1

Help me pick the correct word - please!

jim_1 (Zone 5B)
9 years ago

Ya gotta have some background first:
We have a composite deck and every year about this time (or a bit earlier) I scrub off the residue from winter and birds, etc. Today at lunch, I told the missus that all I had to do would be under the long bench and the steps.

WHOA! Those aren't steps, those are stairs. What is the difference? She didn't have an answer.

When I was growing up, the things that led to the basement were the basement steps. Going from the main level to the area where the bedrooms were, those were called stairs. Is a stair enclosed at the back and the step is not? What about the thing outside the front door, is that a step or stair? (Stoop doesn't apply here.) Or taking that 2 platform thing into the garage - step or stair? Is it the number of them?

What say you all?

Jim

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