What Do You Mean by Apartment?

Flat goes back to the Vikings who had a very similar word and... But do they have flats in those days? No, they didn't have flats. For them, it meant smooth and even. And I think what we're talking about really is just one single story building. So that way it's flat because it's on the flat or it's just... It doesn't have a set of stairs. They don't have flats in America, do they? They have apartments. Why don't they have flats? I don't know. Because we deliberately have two very different languages. Deliberately? Well, the war of... You won't remember the war of independence. But

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