Why are they called stairs inside but steps outside?
Question:just wondering
Answers:
Stairs are usually a set of about a dozen or more. Even inside, just a few are called steps. There are stairs outside, like apartment buildings.
I don't know maybe it is just what they are made of and how they have to weather different things. For example outside steps deal with the rain, snow, etc. and stairs have dust, many feet on them(HA HA), etc.
omg, good question i never thought of that?
maybe because, hmm i really dont know?
so people don't get confused? lol
i dont know because its more steps in side... hmmm good ?
I think they are stairs because there are several of them meaning more then 4 or 5?
stairs - a way of access consisting of a set of steps meaning it is a collective of a series of steps.
Where I come from, they mean the same. I discern the differences between how many is to be climbed.
I feel they are called steps outside because they are an small rise to get to a platform, stairs are a collective of steps to get from one platform to another.
there is a famous landmark in Spain called the 'Spanish Stairs'...but if you google 'Spanish Steps' you get the same results.so no difference there.
Also, 'Steppe' refers to a landscape that is oftentimes terraced and rather dry...and obviously outside, so maybe the word steps is in reference to these landscapes. ??
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