belMarduk wrote: Don't laugh. French Canadians call an electric kettle a duck (un canard). I assume it is because of the bill-like pouring spout.

Here in NZ, we refer to cookers, stoves, ranges interchangeably. Hobs usually referred to the part of an open fireplace where you could put the kettle to boil. On electric ranges, we call the hot plate an "element", although old geezers may still use "hob". With gas cookers, I usually hear "putting something on the gas". But then we don't refer to petrol as gas (much) except when using American slang such as "step on the gas". It's no wonder English is such a hard language for foreigners to speak colloquially!




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