Date:  Tue, 3 Oct 1995 00:29:11 -0700

From:  Rima & Kim McKinzey <rkm[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SLIP.NET>

Subject: Re: ice box



I think this might just be a question of age - or the age of one's parents.

When there were only ice boxes - that's what they were called. If your

parents/grandparents continued to call the appliance that kept food cold

and ice box even when it was a refrigerator - I'd suspect you'd keep

calling it what you heard as a child when you learned the names of things.



Does this also apply to the string bean/green bean?



On the other hand, in my very first independent apt., the refrigerator was

a Philco. Upon cleaning it after moving in, I discovered that the metal

letters were only stuck in the door with little metal dowels. I rearanged

them, and thereafter had a Ploich.



Rima