Ken Brown <k.brown@ccs.bbk.ac.uk> 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. -- 1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott steve@tightrope.demon.co.uk "my watch with a black face .. has the date in a little hole in the face"