[Stoves] Billion Stoves Program (Karin Troncoso)

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Tom

I asked for various understandings.  The identical word appears in Afrikaans
(kookstoov, pronounced koo-uk stoo-uf) so for a very limited number of
people it would be understood immediately.  All others agree that in English
cooking stove is the immediately understood version.

In German the 'koch herd' is very similar to the American cookstove.  Maybe
they are related.

I don't have strong bias on this, it just should be something people
understand.  Is there perhaps any need at all to mention cooking?  Around
here people are not really using stoves for much else.  Yes they use them
for space heating, but there is no differentiation between a 'heating stove'
and a 'cooking stove'.  They are just stoves.

Again to the German, a 'herd' (pronounced herrt') is always for cooking.
Even in Afrikaans, a stoov is for cooking, even if it sometimes used for
entertainment and heating.

I fell that 'improved stove' might carry more information in only two words.

Regards
Crispin