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Regarding the article “A compressed history of refrigeration” (Good Eating, Aug. 12), I am compelled to take issue with Kristin Eddy’s opening sentence where she takes the usual shot at those of us who use the term “icebox” rather than “refrigerator.”
My “Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary” introduced the feature of giving the year that a word first came into use. Under “refrigerator” it gives that year as 1803 and defines it as “something that refrigerates or keeps cool.” “Icebox” is dated 1846 and defined as a “refrigerator.”
You old fogies can keep calling it a refrigerator, but those who keep up with the changes in the times will go with the new term of icebox, thank you.
