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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.
The article refers to the 'California Bungalow' as 1½ stories; they were popular in New Zealand as well as in Australia, though some here were 1½ story though many (like my aunt's) were one story. PS: 'like a bungalow' - ie nothing up top; a derogatory remark about someone from 'The Bill' set in London. Hugo999 01:40, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
[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)
[edit] US-dominated
I've added a CSB-US template to the Amercian Bungalows section -- this currently takes up over half the article and only deals with styles in a single country. Bungalows in other countries should be included.
- The UK is very under-represented, even though bungalows are widespread here! If there is really SO much to be said about different US bungalows then maybe the US bungalow situation needs its own, linked, article? At present it does over-dominate this article. Timothy Titus Talk To TT 12:58, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Canadian Bungalow
I've pulled Canadian Bungalow out from under the American Bungalow heading, leaving American Bungalow to deal exclusively with US use of the term.
While the building practices for this type of structure are likely similar in the two countries, having Canadian as its own subdivision on the same levels and American and Irish lets us focus on aspects of the Canadian building that are uniquely Canadian.
While I haven't added any material to the main article, I expect the paragraph about bungalows in Calgary is very similar to bungalows in Edmonton. Both cities are in the same part of Canada and grew up together. So building styles that were popular in one city at one time will be similar to building styles that were popular in the other city at the same time.
Same might also be true of other cities and communities on the Canadian prairies like Regina, Saskatoon and Winipeg. 199.213.199.33 21:45, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
- I've noted that "bungalow" is used in two different manners in Canada - in Alberta it is very common to see log cabins advertised as vacation rental bungalows, as the lead to this article describes is the practice in South Africa. I've added this info to the article.139.48.25.61 (talk) 15:56, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Temporary Buildings
When I was attending elementary and middle school in america, the word bungalow was used to refer to temporary buildings. They usually had raised foundations and were placed on playground tarmac when attendance for the school outgrew the original buildings. This caused confusion for me later in life when really nice houses were refered to as Bungalow. I was visiting this article in hopes to find out how the temporary buildings aquired this name. Anybody have any references that explain this? Should this article include temporary buildings as part of its definition? Thanks. 76.245.122.155 (talk) 22:47, 7 December 2007 (UTC)Sandy
