Michael Rigby-Jones wrote: >>>cookers and showers are the only *common* domestic hard wired >>>appliances here. >>> >>> >>Please help with the terminology... what is a 'shower' in this context? >> >> > > >A shower is a water sprinkler which you stand under to wash. > > Yeah, we do that too. The idea of one requiring electricity was foreign to me, but it seems as if in the UK it is common for the shower to have it's own integrated water heater. Are they all that way over there? Aaron > > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist