Which is the grammatically correct way to this?

The fact that "I'm on a stairwell" is winning doesn't inspire much confidence.

I am the stair well..........

Hmmm, a stairwell isn't just stairs, it's a room with stairs, so I'd have to go with: I'm IN a stairwell.

If it was a just a staircase, then I would say I'm ON the stairs.

I is on tha climby up thing ma bobbers LOL jk

i think its im in the stairwell

I'd say "in a stairwell", but "on a staircase".

Oh noes, I've said it too many times to myself and now I think the phrase sounds weird.

But hell, poll creator, go with me on this and say you're on a stairwell. Although you wouldn't be corrected anywhere if you used either or.

now I'm confused, I just assumed stairwell meant stairs -__-

im so much more confused now than i was before :c

Polyamoury32 has it on all counts.
You can be ON the stairs, but if those stairs are IN a stairwell, then YOU are IN the stairwell ON the stairs.

Be sure to include all the words relevant to the question: *write* or *say*

Got it?

Which is the grammatically correct way to *write* this?
Are you not in the stairwell, i.e. they (the stairs) are under you, which would mean you are on the stairs?

I'm in the stairwell. It's like saying, "I'm in the house." You wouldn't say you were ON it unless you physically climbed your tail on the roof. Well the stairwell is a place containing the stairs. Therefore, it's a place to be IN. Not on.

i think theyre both right?

When I saw stairwell, I saw staircase :/

im lurking in the stairwell looking up. listening . no not today, then i'm walking out of the stairwell . if i was on the stairwell i'd be on the roof looking down and tearing my note into little pieces and watching it flutter to the street below

I'd say the stairwell is the area containing stairs so, like the posters above me, I'd go with "in" too. Especially because it's bounded on six sides; four walls, a ceiling, and the stairs themselves. You're inside it.

I'd say in, as in you could be in a well like a room.