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We call burners "elements". Just to add to the off-topic-ness of the thread! 
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My TSO sits on top of the Rayburn hob gently simmering all day to feed me endless cups of tea; and the Rayburn feeds hot water to the heavily insulated cylinder, the waste heat from which supplies the slatted shelves of the airing cupboard with an ambience of such baking comfort that the towels, blown dry on a line, come to hand crisp and fresh every day. And this means with a family of four doing maybe 12 loads of washing a week, sometimes more, we still only run the airer (carbon-guzzling beast that it be) about once a month or so.
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You're very lucky. All we get in St. John's is RDF (= Rain, Drizzle, and Fog). No laundry outside for us, unless you just so happen to be doing laundry on one of our sunny days (four, so far). See http://www.ozfm.ca/skycam.htm or http://www.ns.ec.gc.ca/climate/nfld.html for confirmation! 
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now to me, an element is the word for the heating element on an electric stove...( California with all its power problems, is moaning and groaning about the cost of a kwh-- it used to be $0.05-- and is now averaging $0.18-- NY used to be $0.13-- and is now pushing up to $0.24--and california problem is? ) In both cases about a 10 cent increase-- only we still pay way more than them... (and would could end up paying more still!) Needless to say-- almost no one has electric stoves in NY! (Oh to be in England {with its ready supply of North Sea petrolium!})
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Oh! I didn't realize that stoves were not electric in NY. Most are electric here, especially in Western Canada. I think I still might call the thing on a gas stove an element, just because I grew up with electric stoves and I don't think "burner" would come to mind in time!
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In NE we mostly call the cooking areas of a stove "the burners" ... I have a gas stove which is very handy when there is a storm and power failure. My Grandfather sometimes called the stove "the hob." Not much used nowadays.
I know it's popular with the electric suppliers to call those failures "outages." YEK. It wasn't allowed in copy (in my day!) because -- the Editor said -- it wasn't in the dictionary or the AP Stylebook ... it is now but I still think it's one of the "we didn't do it and it wasn't our fault anyway" words used by Power companies.
It wasn't out it *failed. And even if it fails for several days they never give you a credit or even apoligise, do they.
//end rant//
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People tend to be mighty unreasonable when complaining about storms interrupting electric power supplies. When I was living on Cape Cod shortly after WWII, the lines failed frequently because during the war new cable could not be had, and there were hundreds of mickey-mouse repair places that kept failing even in minor wind storms. A friend of the family worked for the power company, and got electrocuted by a safety switch that failed. He wasn't even supposed to be working on it, he was a supervisor, but just over-dedicated and short of qualified workers. Few consumers had any idea what the power company was up against, and how unreasonable their complaints were.
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FWIW, in the South we call burners 'eyes.'
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EYES?!?!? Are you pulling my leg, or what? [puzzled]
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Now, Bean, would I pull anyone's leg?  Actually®, it's just another quaint Southernism... looky here, according to the AHD: e. Chiefly Southern U.S. The round flat cover over the hole on the top of a wood-burning stove. http://www.bartleby.com/61/75/E0307500.htmlWe've just extended it to modern cooking equipment, I reckon.
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