stories/ tall buildings

roomom5 | 20:18 Mon 30th Apr 2007 | People & Places

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Why are the floors on a tall building called stories?

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Storey - "n. floor of a building. Before 1354, borrowed from Anglo-Latin 'historia' picture, floor of a building, from Latin 'historia'.perhaps so called because the front of buildings in the Middle Ages often were decorated with rows of painted windows." The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology by Robert K. Barnhart (HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 1995).

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Thank you so much for that answer!! Over time I have tried to find that out, not religiously but when I thought about it. My son asked me that when he was about 7 he is now 27!! Thanks again!!

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