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The steel named for the place also passes through the fire, takes quite a beating, and emerges better for it.

I have been ignorant of James Joyce and Finnegans Wake but thanks to an article about computers analyzing literature according to the probabilities of one word following another, and that Finnegans Wake has been found to be the least-predictable piece in the "English language" (!?), I have taken-up ...

They urned it.

Dog-whistling, as I hear it, can be any kind of verbal trojan-horse, deliberately-delivered or not, in political speech, always an aspect of "framing". Examples I have noticed have been based on the brain's inability to process negatives. Do not think of elephants. Be calm and do not riot. One spoke...

Same down here. Edit; And from a site called Hunker.com: https://www.hunker.com/13402389/value-of-antique-stoves The earliest cast iron stoves were called five-plate or jamb stoves and were of German design. The 1740s brought six-plate close stoves and Benjamin Franklin's "Pennsylvania Fireplace." B...

"Cooker" has become synonymous with crock-pot-type appliances: rice-cooker, slow-cooker.

The Venn diagram reference got me thinking...how cool would it be if the circles under the glass-top intersected in such a way that you could customize them for oversize pans...simmering gravy in the roaster-pan, for example? Then I thought that making it a touch-screen would be cool. Except it gets...

One could use these sentences, though he'd have to say four, then.

Nope. It's verbatimly literal.

My cabin cookstove "hob" offers a variety of cooking options. You can grill on the flat surface above the oven, with its varying heats, or you can cook in a pan on one of the plates, which plates can be lifted off and the pot set directly over the fire.
I'd say you have one hob and four plates.

The American vernacular doesn't include "in hospital" in any case. Of course we'd understand what it means, but none of us would say or write it.

Yes, I think so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-wPJ5NmSAs

This is what is done by persons of our quality.

Really, Richard!?