More half-baked social planning ideas

[Steve Mynott]

Ken Brown <k.brown at 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.

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