[Vocabulary] attic vs. garret

[Jack8rkin]

Hello!
Could you please tell me which word is more preferrable in the U.S.: "attic" or "garret"? Or, maybe these two have different meanings at all?

Thanx in advance

 

[BobK]

I dont know about Am English, but Br Eng mostly uses the word 'attic'. (I think 'garret' may have a specialized architectural meaning; have a search.) The word chiefly exists in the fixed phrase 'lonely garret' (often inhabited by novelist and poets, especially ones who haven't found a publisher yet!)

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[Jack8rkin]

Thanx for your opinion.
In my case, I need to translate the word denoting the premices beneath the roof in an industrial building. So, what do you say?

 

[BobK]

If it were in a residential house it would be 'attic'. But as most industrial buildings don't have sloping roo[STRIKE]ve[/STRIKE]Fs (a typical characteristic of an attic), I'd just say 'top floor'.

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[Rover_KE]

If an industrial building did have a sloping roof with little-used space above the ceiling of the top floor I'd call it the roof-space.

Rover

 

[Jack8rkin]

Thanx to each and everyone! That was of great help to me.

 

[BobK]

I've fixed a spelling mistake I made in https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ask-teacher/126956-attic-vs-garret.html#post628839 . The plural wasn't given in my Concise Oxford English Dictionary, but I found it in my trusty Cobuild!

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[Jack8rkin]

I wondered why it was rooves rather than roofs. Now it's clear.

 

[BobK]

I wondered why it was rooves rather than roofs. Now it's clear.

I thought (at first) that the plural of "roof" was like the plural of "hoof" (which is "hooves"). It's not just students who have trouble with this stuff!

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