"icebox"

[Jocelyn Limpert]

I'm 76 and heard it while growing up in Wisconsin. But my parents never
said it, although my grandmother did. And I now hear people of that age
saying it in Virginia, which sounds totally strange to me, as though
they're locked far, far in the past!


On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Dan Goodman <dsgood at iphouse.com> wrote:

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> I used to say "icebox" for refrigerator.  Have stopped because people
> were looking at me funny.
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> Is this a generational change?  (I'm 70.)  Or a difference between
> Hudson Valley and Twin Cities speech?
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> Or possibly both, or some alternative which didn't occur to me.
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> Dan Goodman
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