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SpaceFlight wrote:Is it incorrect to call something in your garage that heats your water a ''hot water heater''? Does it make no sense to call it that, because if the water was already hot then you wouldn't need to heat it? Many people would say ''yes''. Is it senseless to talk about a ''hot water heater'' heating up water that's cold?
geoff wrote:How about calling it a boiler?
geoff wrote:To riki: I have never seen/heard the word "tortology", do you mean "tautology"?
svenska84 wrote:geoff wrote:How about calling it a boiler?
I don't call it that but I could see it as plausible that someone might call it that somewhere.
geoff wrote:svenska84 wrote:geoff wrote:How about calling it a boiler?
I don't call it that but I could see it as plausible that someone might call it that somewhere.
It is very common in England. But regarding the original question I was cheating a bit, as "boiler" is basically the short form for "hot water boiler".
geoff
Yes, I believe riki meant "tautology." This is of course an interesting example of the famous "cot-caught" merger. As riki presumably says "tort" and "taut" the same (Antipodean English generally would have [tʰoːt] there, wouldn't it?), then the confusion is quite understandable. I, however have [tʰɑˈtʰɑlədʒi] for "tautology" and [tʰɔrt] for "tort."
Back to the actual term, that's not how we used "tautology" in my semantics class I took this year, but I think it may be used to refer to supposed redundancies in formal-writing style guides.
Bugi wrote:We use the word bojler in Serbian for that.
Bugi wrote:But I would say water heater in English.
Funny how neither OALD nor CALD specify boiler as a Bitish English word. Though OALD gives a synonym that is especially used in American English: furnace
Bugi wrote:Also I found this:
immersion heater noun
(BrE) a device that provides hot water for a house by heating water in a TANK (= a large container)
JackFrost wrote:It's not always found in garages since not everyone has a garage, like my apartment. Mine is in the bathroom hidden next to the shower. It uses electricity.
ZombiekE wrote:Ah, so the whole "hot water heater" or "boiler" are just that? I thought they were something to heat water to drink tea
We call them "calentadores" (el calentador, masc. sing).
ZombiekE wrote:I used to have one in my kitchen with a cylindrical form. It worked with electricity. At home, we are afraid of gas, specially that one that comes in pumps (not the one that comes through pipes because there have been many explosions in Spain). After some years passed, if you opened your tap fast, some particles came and mixed with the water, so you had to wait for the water to become edible again, not mixed with iron or other dregs.
Then, my block (and the other three we shared heating with) changed the common boiler and now we share both hot water and heating. It's really comfortable. No worries to make sure you've turned on the heater before you went to bed to have hot water the day after.
ZombiekE wrote:When I was in the UK, the boiler was cylindrical, but it lay horizontally (should I say horizontal or horizontally? answer please)
Psi-Lord wrote:In Brazil, the only ones I'm acquainted with are similar to this:
I call them aquecedores. They're very common in buildings, but I can't remember having ever seen one in a house, and it's the type you usually turn on right before using it and then turn off again once you don't need hot water anymore. When present in buildings, there's one for each flat (as opposed to having one for the whole building or something); in my own building there are none, though.
svenska84 wrote:So if you don't have that kind in your building, what kind do you have?
Psi-Lord wrote:svenska84 wrote:So if you don't have that kind in your building, what kind do you have?
None. The shower is electric, and if we want hot water somewhere else, we have to get electric taps, too.
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