[Tagging] Cooker or Stove in the kitchen?
Paul Allen
pla16021 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 20 13:12:04 UTC 2020
On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 at 12:40, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> are these 2 things both called "stove" in British English?
>
> Some would call both of those a stove. Some would call only one of those a
stove. Some would call neither of them a stove (one is a cooker, the other
a
wood burner).
Usage changes. Fifty years ago it was fairly common to hear older people
refer to a gas cooker as a gas stove, or even just a stove: they'd grown up
with wood/coal-burning cookers called stoves, so the new gas cooker was a
gas stove.
Usage changes. People call things what the marketers call them. If it's
advertised as a stove they call it a stove; if it's advertised as a cooker
they call it a cooker.
OTOH, if you ask people for a generic term for something with an oven
and hob, they'll probably say cooker rather than stove. If you ask them
a generic term for something that burns wood or coal to heat a room they'll
probably say fire, unless you specify that it's in a closed container in
which
case they'll probably say stove. But that may depend upon where in the
UK you ask.
--
Paul
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