I think the refrigerator was a really cool invention (pun intended… lame… maybe… but pun still intended). Why is refrigerator spelled “refrigerator” but fridge is spelled “fridge” … where the hell did the D come from? I’m going to go out, on something other than a limb, and guess that refrigerator was derived from the word frigid… they just tossed a “re” in front of it… even though the job of the refrigerator isn’t so much to refrigerate, as it is to just plain frigerate. If I’m right, then we’ve been spelling fridge wrong for years! If refrigerator doesn’t have a D in it… and frigid doesn’t have a D in it (and yes I’m aware that frigid has a D, but it’s at the end of the word… not before the G… so stop thinking you’re so clever… smartass) then where the hell did the D in fridge come from?! Are we allowed to just arbitrarily throw letters into words now? If so, I’m spelling coconut with Q… coconqut… and no… the Q is not silent… so I’m completely changing the word coconut to coconqut… and if you say coconut, ever again, you’re wrong.
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