On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 at 12:40, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > are these 2 things both called "stove" in British English? > > Some would call both of those a stove. Some would call only one of those a stove. Some would call neither of them a stove (one is a cooker, the other a wood burner). Usage changes. Fifty years ago it was fairly common to hear older people refer to a gas cooker as a gas stove, or even just a stove: they'd grown up with wood/coal-burning cookers called stoves, so the new gas cooker was a gas stove. Usage changes. People call things what the marketers call them. If it's advertised as a stove they call it a stove; if it's advertised as a cooker they call it a cooker. OTOH, if you ask people for a generic term for something with an oven and hob, they'll probably say cooker rather than stove. If you ask them a generic term for something that burns wood or coal to heat a room they'll probably say fire, unless you specify that it's in a closed container in which case they'll probably say stove. But that may depend upon where in the UK you ask. -- Paul
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