On Tue, 08 May 2018 23:26:16 +0100, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 5/8/2018 6:06 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:


I find it amusing the way yanks say "furnace" instead of boiler. A
furnace is a huge commercial device, like the things for burning refuse.


Rule of thumb:
Furnaces heat air
Boilers heat water

Many houses do have hot air furnaces for heat.

Wiki talks about Brit use of the term
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furnace

"In British English, a furnace is an industrial furnace"
British English, that's the real one, not your fake American version. A furnace is industrial, end of story.

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