The word 'stove'

Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) catlady at wicca.net
Sun Feb 1 04:48:59 UTC 2004


My friend's friend said that people in Britain only say 'stove' when
they mean a woodstove, and for any other kind of stove (gas, electric,
propane, etc), they say 'cooker'. (Obviously that would be any other
kind of cookstove, not heatstove.) Is there any truth to this claim?





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