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Household Hints & Help

keithbvadu2

(40,845 posts)

12. new refrigerator 1938

Reply to BootinUp (Original post)

Sat Dec 15, 2018, 01:02 AM

Dec 2018

my grandfather went downtown when refrigerators were first coming out in 1938
the store had one but it was already sold and they could order one for him.
he said: I've got cash.
he got the fridge that day.
it was still working in 1981 when they died.

how come 'fridge' has a 'd' while 'refrigerator' does not?

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