At 05:29 AM 1/4/01 -0500, Ken Brown wrote:
I *guess* "kitchen"
sharp lad
because in the UK "stove" is an old-fashioned name for a cooking device, stuff we used before the invention of gas and electric cookers (in fact, before the invention of the cast-iron range).
Yes, artifact to cook on 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 here you put teenagers or washing machines or junk in your basement, not furnaces. Actually, in London, they are almost always converted into flats & rented out.
So what do you call the artifacts that warm your homes, and where are they located? Boilers and radiators? Embedded wires? Fireplaces? Peat fires? Mad-cow-dung fires?
Anyway, surely basements are urban vs. rural? A way of getting more room in a restricted space. Do people build them out in the country?
Tim enlightened us IIRC that they have to do with the frost line... you want to have your lowest slab below it.