Date:  Mon, 2 Oct 1995 08:14:02 -0700

From:  Allen Maberry <maberry[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]U.WASHINGTON.EDU>

Subject: Re: icebox



b. 1951, Portland OR,

Whole appliance = stove

oven = oven (Dinner's in the oven. Dinner's on the stove)

electric elements = burners

Stove/kitchen stove = stove for cooking, any other stove had to be specified

 e.g., parlour stove, wood stove, etc.

icebox sometimes used by grandparents (b.1893 and 1900) for

refrigerator/fridge/'frigerator

I have heard the term "range" but I associated it with a counter top unit

without an oven, and rarely use the term in any other sense.

Allen

maberry[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]u.washington.edu



On Sun, 1 Oct 1995, Natalie Maynor wrote:



> b. 1943, Jackson, Mississippi:

>

> The whole appliance = stove.

> The oven = stove or oven.

> The hot, round things on the top = burners.

> The general space on top = top of the stove.

>

> The other appliance = refrigerator. I guess I must have heard somebody

> say "ice box" at some point during my childhood, although I don't associate

> that with anybody I remember. I know my parents said "refrigerator." I

> think my grandparents also (or at least the two of them still living when

> I was born), although I may be wrong about that.

>  --Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)

>