[Stoves] Billion Stoves Program (Karin Troncoso)

[Kevin Chisholm]

Dear Crispin

What would you think about "A Billion Clean Stoves"?

That deals with your relevant comments about "cook stove", and it also 
incorporates Cornelio's very important observations about "clean".

What woman, in the entire world, would object to having a clean stove?

Most "improved stoves" are better than a three stone fire, so that 
phrase doesn't really tell very much. However, "clean" is a powerful 
descriptor that sets a "clean stove" apart from most existing stoves 
that should be upgraded.

Best wishes,

Kevin

Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote:
> 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 
> 
> 
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