fridge frills

[timepiececlock]

I've opened the fridge, stared at it, and closed it again 3 times in the last hour.

This last time I went as far as to remove something to eat. When in doubt, yogurt. I picked boysenberry flavor.

Do other people say "fridge" more the "refridgerator"? What do people in English-speaking Europe say? What do people in New England, or the deep South, say? Does everyone like "fridge" best, or do they say funny things, like "super-sized cooling thingy" and "icebox"?

Comments

[xanphibian.livejournal.com]

I always call it a fridgerator. No fancy schmancy prefixes for me. :)

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I say that sometimes. More often than I say the whole word, that's for sure. It's shaving it down to a 4-syllable word, less gangly that "refridgerator" and more exact that "fridge." Though mostly I say "fridge."

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Here in the UK and ireland we say 'fridge'.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Looks like there are some universals in this language--everyone's too lazy to say all five syllables.

[http://users.livejournal.com/automatedalice_/]

fridge. but i've heard mr. alice say 'icebox.' we're both kinda downhome in the language department, but i don't go that far. you know you're country when you've got a 'deepfreeze.'

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

deepfreeze. Is that one of those extra-large squarish floor-freezers that are the size of the ones used to hold ice cream in 7-eleven stores?

[http://users.livejournal.com/automatedalice_/]

yeppers. the kind you put your project steer, project hog, or processed deer in. ;)

[kittyb90.livejournal.com]

I'm from New England, and I call it a fridge. I think all of my family does, too. My friend Carol, who is from south Georgia, usually calls it a fridge, but sometimes fridgerator.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

looks like it's one of those things everyone does the same, then.

[octopedingenue]

Texas=fridge (or fridgerator if we're feelin' fancy).

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Yup. Looks like all English speakers are lazy, the world over.

[mrthursday.livejournal.com]

Here in my little part of my misty isle it is:
fridge
Refridgerator
or...
Thomas box (after my glutton of a younger brother...who NEVER puts weight on!)

[xaelle.livejournal.com]

Australia - we call it a 'fridge too.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

HAHA! Sorry I totally forgot about you guys.

[xaelle.livejournal.com]

That's okay - we're so far away we're totally forgettable...(lol)

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Well, far away from me personally, anyway, though I can't speak for the Europeans. Still, it might give you a bit of national pride to know that my ver Californian-raised brother stopped off at Australia with his Navy ship last month, and he said he wants to live there, it's fabulous, and he's never seen so many hot girls in one place in his life. :g: I was jealous-- where there's hot girls, there's probably hot guys!