Ken Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> were American. But, not being American I still have no real idea what
> the expected answer to
>
> > furnace:basement::stove:______
I had no idea either.
> I *guess* "kitchen" because in the UK "stove" is an old-fashioned name
> for a cooking device, stuff we used before the invention of gas and
I don't know if it's _that_ old-fashioned the word "stove" is still in
use for this.
On a tangent a friend claimed Americans didn't have electric kettles
for boiling water.
Can anyone confirm whether this is true?
> electric cookers (in fact, before the invention of the cast-iron
> range). But for us a "furnace" is an extremely large thing that you get
> steel out of... not something anyone would find in a basement. Over
I think "furnace" is "boiler" in English.
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