I went skydiving with some friends 30-ish years ago.
We had a choice between a 10,000 foot tandem jump with a free fall or a 3,000 foot static-line solo jump. I wanted the 10,000 foot jump but was outvoted because the 3,000 was cheaper.
It was a blast. My only complaint was that it was over too soon. I always wanted to go back and do the higher jump but never did.
So what do you call it if you’re not using either part, just describing it to someone else?
“I really like my oven.”
“I really like my stove.”
I’d go with oven.
Hmm, it’s the best oven I’ve ever owned, by a long shot, but it’s only “fine” as a stove.
And i guess i mostly refer to the two parts separately, too.
You could go all fancy and call it a “range.”
The emergency vehicle warning, I guess. The other one just seems like not a great idea. There’s already the pedestrian signal with the countdown, adding something else that turns the signal into a drag race tree is probably unwise.
I call it a “stove” but I know that it is a “range.”
Happy birthday Karen.
As a teen I had a lot of friends who worked at various movie theaters, as did my brother, so I pretty much got in to see anything I wanted. My experience was even if I didn’t know the person in the ticket booth, they really didn’t care. And it’s not like I had an “old face” or anything, I very much looked like a teenager as a teenager.
I’ve been in a reasonable number of countries that use amber as an indicator of lights changing in both ways. It hasn’t been challenging or confusing.
I guess I should have worded the question more carefully. I was after what you call the entire unit.
Like, if you need a new one, for example. Do you say you need a new stove? A new oven? A new range? A new thermo food-cooking apparatus?
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My stove has a range on top, with an oven under that.
Someone once told me that in places where the majority of drivers drive cars with manual transmissions, it’s the signal that it’s time to shift into first gear and get ready to go.
Re: R rated movies, I’ve never been denied entry when I was under 17. But when South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut came out it generated a huge outcry in my conservative Southern community. Any other R rated movie they wouldn’t have bothered checking, but they were strictly checking ids for South Park. I was old enough at the time, but some other people I went to see it with were not, so they denied entry to the whole group (I guess technically I could have seen it by myself without them, though). We tried buying tickets to a different movie and then sneaking in to see South Park, but they actually had a bouncer outside that theater checking tickets, and he caught us sneaking in when we thought he wasn’t looking, and we had to watch the movie we actually had tickets for.
So, imagine you need help moving it, what would you say?
“Hey, can you help me move my…?”
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ETA: Unless you actually say, “Hey, can you help me move my stove with a range on top, with an oven under that?”
Maybe because they watched the movie and saw what happens when you let underage kids into an R-rated movie?
If I’m referring to the whole unit, I call it a stove. If I’m talking about a specific activity, such as, baking or heating a pot of soup, I’ll refer to the oven or the burner.
When I was a really little kid, maybe up to kindergarten age, I (we) called the couch a davenport. Then, never again after that. I might use sofa on rare occasions. I only refer to an actual Chesterfield as a Chesterfield.
A Chesterfield is what Mom smoked. A sofa is what rich folks had.
We had a couch.
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Mine are two different items. There’s a gas range on the counter, with cabinets underneath. The oven is built into the wall off to the side.
I had a funny incident when Interview With A Vampire came out. Having never heard of a R rated horror movie before, on Veteran’s day I (17) decided to go with a friend (almost 16) and my brother (11), and the only theater in the area playing it was Bedford, which I hadn’t been to in years so I didn’t know they were much stricter about ages than closer theaters.
When we went to the ticket window, everyone handed me their money, and I tried to buy the tickets. In what turned out to be the only time ever even though I looked very young for my age, I was carded before they let me buy movie tickets. Fine, I was 17, so I handed over my ID. The girl at the window looked at my ID, looked at my friend and my brother, shrugged, and handed over 3 tickets. I could see maybe believing my friend just looked young too, but an 11-year-old who obviously wasn’t with a guardian? lol
Appliance manufacturers define the stove/oven/range distinction on their websites, but acknowledge that “stove” and “range” are often used interchangeably. From Whirlpool’s website:
Some good friends of mine live here in the U.S., but grew up in Ireland; a while back, I discovered that the word which they use for the “all-in-one device” isn’t range, nor stove, but “cooker.”
Bet it’s fun for the dogs to try to eat those! Variable speed drill?
To the cooking surface poll I responded Something else because there was no It depends. If there’s an oven underneath, it’s a stove. If it’s just the burners and the oven is somewhere else, or non existent, it’s a range.
R-rated movies, I never attempted to sneak in because the rating system had not been started yet when I was of an age where I would have tried it.
At age thirteen, I was refused entry into Irma la Douce. At age fourteen I was admitted to The Pawnbroker with it’s quick bare-breasted scenes that were a major factor in the later abandonment of the Hays Code in favor of the rating system.
I call the whole unit a stove (and voted accordingly.) If I’m talking specifically about the oven, then I’ll say the oven – or maybe the broiler if I’m broiling, though in my current and most of my previous stoves that’s been a matter of which element is on, not a matter of a different compartment.
If I’m talking about cooking something on the burners on top, I’ll still say “stove”, though I might specify by saying “on the stove”. If I were somewhere where the cooking appliance was in separate pieces or there just wasn’t an oven but there was a stovetop, I’d call it a stovetop. Which, come to think of it, doesn’t make much sense if there isn’t any stovebottom; but that’s still what I’d call it.
Yup; that’s an option that wasn’t included: movie ratings started in 1968. In 1968, I was 17. So the issue never came up.
(I had to look up when they started; but I looked it up because I couldn’t remember any discussion among my friends about it when we were, say, 14 or 15 or 16.)
Before that they just had the Hays Code, which censored movies for everybody of any age.
I use “sofa” and “couch” equally often. My grandmother called it a “davenport”.