Date:  Mon, 2 Oct 1995 08:31:07 -0500

From:  Shana Walton <swalton[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OCEAN.ST.USM.EDU>

Subject: Re: icebox



Well, the icebox/refrigerator distinction can't be regional, nor can the

eyes/burner distinction be because I'm a native Southerner as well and my

family said "icebox" and "eyes." I can clearly remember not knowing

what a "burner" was! We did, however, use "icebox" and "fridge" and

"refrigerator" (less common) interchangeably.



(Middle Tennessee and Louisiana, b. 1961)





Shana Walton

Mississippi Oral History Program

University of Southern Mississippi

swalton[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ocean.st.usm.edu