Oddbean new post about login | logout Odd English language usage: I wonder why we call the flat space in the middle of a staircase a landing.
@f42fdd5b could be that when you go up a ‘flight of stairs’ when you reach the top and stop you have ‘landed’, hence area called ‘landing’. Sounds very modern if we think of it in relation to planes, but actually birds have been around longer than two storey houses!