Climb steps/stairs

[Ashraful Haque]

As you can see in the subtitles, it says "wow you,ve got to climb a lot of steps to get ot they factory."
This person is a youtuber from the UK. I've never heard an American say steps in any movies or shows to be honest. I think Americans say stairs.
If this guys was an American, would he say "wow you,ve got to climb a lot of stairs to get ot they factory"?

 

[Skrej]

Your picture doesn't show up for me. It's just a red X.

However, both 'steps' and 'stairs' are used in AmE, typically interchangeably. I know I certainly mix the two terms.

 

[Tarheel]

@Ashraful Haque You can still edit that for spelling.

 

[Rover_KE]

Your picture doesn't show up for me. It's just a red X..

When I click on the red X, a picture appears with a badly capitalised and punctuated sentence.

This YouTuber's work is not helping you to learn good English.

 

[emsr2d2]

As you can see in the subtitles, it says "Wow! You've got to climb a lot of steps to get ot to they the factory."
This person is a YouTuber from the UK. I've never heard an American say "steps" in any movies or shows. to be honest. I think Americans say "stairs".
If this guys guy was an American, would he say "Wow! You've got to climb a lot of stairs to get ot to they the factory"?

Note my corrections above. I can see that you copied "wow" (uncapitalised and unpunctuated) from the subtitles. However, the rest of the errors you made were your own. You need to find the apostrophe key on your keyboard. Read your writing back very carefully before you post it. I'm sure you know that "ot" is not a word, and that "they factory" makes no sense.

 

[probus]

We in North America use both steps and stairs interchangeably. I've been unable to find a source to tell us which is more common.

 

[tedmc]

"Step" is a subset of "stair". A stair is a series of steps, so we can climb some steps but climb a stair.

 

[Piscean]

"Step" is a subset of "stair". A stair is a series of steps, so we can climb some steps but climb a stair.

That is very uncommon in BrE. A staircase is a series of stairs.

 

[Tarheel]

I think "stair" is rarely if ever used in the singular in American English. In other words, you can have a flight of stairs, but just one is a step. (I'm willing to be proven wrong.)

 

[tedmc]

That is very uncommon in BrE. A staircase is a series of stairs.

I meant a set (not series) of steps. I'm talking about "stair", not "staircase".

 

[Piscean]

I meant a set (not series) of steps.

Well, you wrote "A stair is a series of steps".

A staircase is a set of stairs inside a building. https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/staircase
We don't use the singular stair for that.

 

[PeterCW]

As a native BrE speaker I would typically use "steps" when outdoors and "stairs" when indoors.

 

[Tarheel]

Then there is this.

Yesterday upon the stair
I saw a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I sure do wish he'd go away.

 

[tedmc]

Then there is this.

Yesterday upon the stair
I saw a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I sure do wish he'd go away.

You said in Post #9 that "stair" is rarely singular.

 

[emsr2d2]

There's also the chorus of "There Once was a Windmill", which goes:

I saw a mouse!
Where?
There on the stair.
Where on the stair?
Right there!

I won't go on. I'm only saying it so that I can point out that we tell learners not to use songs and poetry as examples of grammatical English. Words are chosen to fit the rhyme and rhythm of the piece.

 

[Ashraful Haque]

@Ashraful Haque You can still edit that for spelling.

For some reason I can't find the 'edit' button. (are they called buttons? )

 

[Ashraful Haque]

We in North America use both steps and stairs interchangeably. I've been unable to find a source to tell us which is more common.

I think as a non-native speaker I'm better off sticking to just one of them.
Please let me know if the following sentences sound natural to you.

1) I can't climb all those stairs. My legs are sore from last night's workout.
2) He is coming up the stairs.

 

[Tarheel]

For some reason I can't find the 'edit' button. (are they called buttons? )

It's too late now. You can only do that for 24 hours (I think). It's at the bottom on the left of the post, and the two options are "Edit" and "Delete".

 

[Tarheel]

I think as a non-native speaker I'm better off sticking to just one of them.
Please let me know if the following sentences sound natural to you.

1) I can't climb all those stairs. My legs are sore from last night's workout.
2) He is coming up the stairs.

Yep. Perfect!