Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 08:29:22 -0400

From: Wayne Glowka wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU

Subject: Re: stove/range



Is the stove/range distinction purely regional, or is there a difference

in meaning? Also, do those of you living on the East Coast use the term

"swamp cooler" for an air conditioner-like device that cools using

water? (It's very popular out here in Colorado.) I use the term "stove"

exclusively (I come from Philadelphia), but "range" seems to be a much more

popular term out here.



Ellen S. Polsky (Ellen.Polsky[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]Colorado.EDU)



We called it a "stove" in San Antonio. We also called the heating elements

"burners." I found that "eyes" sounded peculiar to my ears in the

Philadelphia area.



I remember those fake air conditioners. I can still smell the air from the

two I was around as a child. I want to say that we called them "coolers"

or maybe "water coolers" (as opposed to "water fountains" or "drinking

fountains" where you drank), I won't bet money on this portion of my groggy

Monday-morning memory.











Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Director of Research and Graduate Student Services

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu