Why is an oven called a range?
 

I was out looking for an old electric oven to powder coat and noticed many are called a range? Where did that come from?

Other weird things are some call a dresser a chest of drawers?

Just left overs from the good ole days?

Why is it called a shipment if it goes by car? Why is it called cargo if it goes by ship?

Why do you drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?

I knew this was going to happen,lol But true, why do you launder a washcloth?

A better question (to me anyway) is why some call a chest of drawers called a dresser ???

Why is a couch sometimes called a davenport?

Why are pants sometimes trousers?

When you're at home on it.

the gas or el-trick range has the ability to have a controlled range of temperatures
something the old wood or coal stoves did not

A pair of pants?

DingDingDING.....We have a WINNER!!!

A dresser is a double column of drawers that can be used to...dress a child on.

A chest of drawers is a taller single column of drawers.

At least that's what I was told.

Why do you recite at a play, but play at a recital?

Why do you park in the driveway, but drive on the parkway?

I've lost a sock but I've never lost a pant.

Are they my pants pockets, my pant's pockets or my pant pockets?

Did I tear my pant leg, my pants leg, or my pant's leg?

The term is surprisingly old. It denotes the 'range' of options for cooking on a stove with different size burners.

Here in Los Angeles, we also park on the parkways...

If those little candy dots used in baking are called "non-pariels", what are "pariels"?

Why do they want me to liquor? I don't even know her.

Etymology is an interest of mine. I checked all my sources and came up with nothing more than this, "The cooking appliance so called since mid-15c., for unknown reasons."

Why is a cook-top called a hob?

I like how dog people refer to female dogs as a "*****", and then ALWAYS say "you know, we call female dos "*****es"... Wouldn't it be more efficient to just call them "female dogs" and then not have to offer up the "translation"?

I should have typed "B1tch"....

Entomology is indeed interesting. There's software out there, similar to the various programs for tracing one's gynecology. Beware pre-1970 stuff though, because it's full of inaccuracies and bugs (grace hoppers, I think).

Example:

"A common myth about the kangaroo's English name is that "kangaroo" was a Guugu Yimithirr phrase for "I don't understand you." According to this legend, Lieutenant Cook and naturalist Sir Joseph Banks were exploring the area when they happened upon the animal. They asked a nearby local what the creatures were called. The local responded "Kangaroo", meaning "I don't understand you", which Cook took to be the name of the creature. The Kangaroo myth was debunked in the 1970s by linguist John B. Haviland in his research with the Guugu Yimithirr people."

The black b!tch that lives next door to me had me up all night last night. I never knew Labs barked that much.

pariels are those which are not non.

only if you're a girl.

What is a bureau then?

ok I'll play

Why are the ones on your butt called Hemorrhoids and the ones in space are called ASSteroids???????

Wouldn't it make more sense if it were the other way around ???????????

The comic Gallagher had dozens of these things...

Why do they call them buildings ? Shouldn't they be called builts ?

I know that people can be disgruntled, but what the helll is gruntle?

Same reason we call individually wrapped sterilized self-stick bandages "bandaids." As I understand it, Davenport made a lot of well-known couches, and it became a household word which seems to have survived the company.

Makes me wonder. Will our grandkids be mystified that we say "google" when we mean "look for?"

Dan

Also:

Candido Jacuzzi

The Earl of Sandwich

The Earl of Cardigan

Thomas Crapper

Jules Leotard

Amelia Bloomer

Rudolf Diesel

George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr

Joseph-Ignace Guillotin

Vyacheslav Molotov

Uziel Gal

Ferdinanand Von Zeppelin

Giuseppe Zamboni

General Motors,

The list goes on...

Everything else?

Why do you drive on a parkway, but park in a driveway?

-George Carlin

That's 3 times in 2 pages for this one... well, 4 now.

Why do you drive on a parkway, but park in a driveway?

a dog is a male canine
a b1tch is a female canine.
i don't want to know what a female dog canine looks like

Why do you call a "wheel" a "rim" and vice-verseh-

N!