As you know I spent the weekend sleeping in a makeshift slum.
Each night as i couldn’t sleep due to discomfort I would stare at the ceiling of the slum which happened to be made of empty cardboard fridge boxes.
I noticed something that you are going to find profound and life changing.
There is no ‘d’ in refrigerator. I have never noticed this before. Why is there a ‘d’ in fridge?
It should be pronounced re-frig-erator which sounds like some sort of nautical dinosaur.
So i’m thinking of starting a bring back the d campaign called ‘Plan D’.
Dave Andrews has ‘Plan Be’ all about bringing the beatitudes to a prominent place in our churches and personal faith.
Plan D shall attempt to return the D to fridge boxes, I’m pretty sure koorong will back me and sell my book.
No ‘d’. I’m still shocked.
i’ve never noticed that before.
i don’t think i’ve been spelling refrigerator as refridgerator or anything, but i hadn’t made the connection about the letter ‘d’.
well observed robert.
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So we should call it a frige?
Or a frig?
we should call it a fridge becasue that’s what it is, but we need to bring the d back into refidgerator
After some quick googling this is my theory: The ‘frig’ in ‘refrigerator’ stems from the word ‘frigid’. In the shortened form ‘fridge’, a ‘d’ is needed before the ‘g’ to retain the ‘j’ sound. Just like ‘ledge’, ‘fudge’, ‘bridge’, and so on. That’s the way the wacky english language works.