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There are 37 messages totalling 831 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. stove/range

 2. phonetics of dialects (6)

 3. Dropping letters from alphabets (2)

 4. icebox (6)

 5. icebox and upstate (4)

 6. Fwd: Re(2): icebox

 7. Dropping letters fro

 8. downtown/inner city (7)

 9. inner city

 10. icebox and upstate (fwd)

 11. Terminology of unexcused absences (2)

 12. from Lynne re candy

 13. 'chili' or 'chile'

 14. Laying Out: Hookey or Tanning?

 15. phonetic spelling in high places (2)



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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