It takes gravity 30-somenthing seconds to get you to fall a certain number of storeys from the roof of a building. If you're falling off of the stories of a building, you're probably fictive to begin with, and then it's kind of not exactly a given whether gravity exists in your universe or not.
1] panix5.panix.com 43 > dict storey 4 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Storey \Sto"rey\, n. See {Story}. [1913 Webster]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Story \Sto"ry\, n.; pl. {Stories}. [OF. estor['e], estor['e]e, built, erected, p. p. of estorer to build, restore, to store. See {Store}, v. t.] A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within. [Written also {storey}.] [1913 Webster]
Note: A story comprehends the distance from one floor to another; as, a story of nine or ten feet elevation. The spaces between floors are numbered in order, from below upward; as, the lower, second, or third story; a house of one story, of two stories, of five stories. [1913 Webster]
{Story post} (Arch.), a vertical post used to support a floor or superincumbent wall. [1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
storey n : structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a multilevel building; "what level is the office on?" [syn: {floor}, {level}, {story}]
From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:
Storey -- U.S. County in Nevada Population (2000): 3399 [...]
(I think I spell it 'storey'/'storeys' slightly more often than 'story'/'stories', but I definitely switch back and forth, and am influenced by which spelling I've seen most recently -- and leave either spelling intact when quoting, of course.)
Argh!
Regional difference?
4 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Storey \Sto"rey\, n.
See {Story}.
[1913 Webster]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Story \Sto"ry\, n.; pl. {Stories}. [OF. estor['e], estor['e]e,
built, erected, p. p. of estorer to build, restore, to store.
See {Store}, v. t.]
A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the
space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a
building's exterior considered architecturally, which need
not correspond exactly with the stories within. [Written also
{storey}.]
[1913 Webster]
Note: A story comprehends the distance from one floor to
another; as, a story of nine or ten feet elevation. The
spaces between floors are numbered in order, from below
upward; as, the lower, second, or third story; a house
of one story, of two stories, of five stories.
[1913 Webster]
{Story post} (Arch.), a vertical post used to support a floor
or superincumbent wall.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
storey
n : structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a
single level of a multilevel building; "what level is the
office on?" [syn: {floor}, {level}, {story}]
From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:
Storey -- U.S. County in Nevada
Population (2000): 3399
[...]
(I think I spell it 'storey'/'storeys' slightly more often than 'story'/'stories', but I definitely switch back and forth, and am influenced by which spelling I've seen most recently -- and leave either spelling intact when quoting, of course.)