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Peter A

In article >, ost
says...
> On Thu, 17 May 2007 16:27:56 +0000 (UTC), tert in seattle wrote:
>
> > ost writes:
> >
> >>So why is it called a "RE-frigerator", and not just "frigerator"?
> >>Frigerator would mean "makes cold" (in the modern sense of the
> >>language), so why the "re" in front of it?
> >
> > making something cold is different from keeping something cold
>
> But most (all?) things that go into the frigerator were not cold
> to begin with, so it's not returning to a cold state.
>
> -sw
>

I am astonished at the blinding stupidity in this thread. Don't you
blockheads know what a dictionary is?

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Peter Aitken