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ost writes:
>On Mon, 14 May 2007 02:52:02 -0500, Charlene Charette wrote:
>
>> Steve Wertz wrote:
>>> On 12 May 2007 17:25:15 -0700, wrote:
>>>
>>>>There is no d in refrigerate.
>>>
>>> But there is in 'fridge'. Go figure.
>>
>> That's because "fridge" comes from "Frigidaire" not "refrigerator".
>
>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