Talk:Bungalow
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[edit] Story/storey
So far, there've been at least two random edits where story has been gratuitously changed to storey. (To add insult to injury, it's only the first occurence that's been changed, and not consistently throughout.) Please see Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#National_varieties_of_English to see why this is a Bad Thing.
And thus, Dear Wikipedians, if you feel like changing the spelling yet again - please don't. --moof 02:34, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Picture
We need a picture...—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.112.91.107 (talk • contribs) .
[edit] US usage
The text is an interesting reflection of US usage. In the UK, at least in the 20th century, 'bungalow' had a rather deprecated implication. Such buildings were often grouped on marginal land and either had single storeys to reduce building costs or because some element of self-build was involved. So the wording which implies 'higher cost' of plot etc should be reviewed or referenced to make clearer the US-only context.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.139.187.94 (talk • contribs) .
[edit] Any one story house?
The term "bungalow" does not encompass "any" one story house. Therefore, I have changed "any" to "a type of".—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.118.34.96 (talk • contribs) .
- Yes, that's the dictionary definition. What else do you call single-story houses? Samw 03:06, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
- No, that's NOT the dictionary definition. In fact, Webster calls it a "usually" one-storied house. By that definition, "one story" might be too restrictive, rather than all-inclusive as you proclaim it to be. There are several other styles of one story houses, including rambler, ranch, and mobile or manufactured homes. These, however, are most certainly not bungalows.
[edit] History of use of the word bungalow
Odd that there's no mention that the word entered the English argot as a result of the British Empire in India: there's a long history of bungalows in the UK, longer than that of the US, I suspect. Clearly this article has been written by someone with knowledge of the US examples, but it would be nice if could be balanced by someone with more knowledge than I of the UK examples. And what of bunglaows in Europe? 82.32.238.139 08:36, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
