"icebox"

[Herb Stahlke]

I'm 71, and I grew up in rural lower Michigan saying "icebox" because we
had one till I was about 10.  When we got a fridge, icebox and fridge were
interchangeable.

Herb


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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