the fact that some people call water heaters "boilers" is really weird to us
we mostly associate the word "boiler" with the industrial equipment for producing high-pressure steam, known for being *incredibly* dangerous if anything goes wrong, i.e. exactly the sort of thing you absolutely do not want to be in domestic buildings
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it does make sense though; they both do the same thing: dump energy into water to raise its temperature
it's just that the actual industrial boilers take it a step further to actually boil the water, whereas water heaters... don't
so boiler is a bit of a misnomer since no boiling is involved (or if it is, something's gone very wrong)
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@Felthry I think it's one of those things where, if you hear someone call it a boiler, even though it's just a heater, you're almost always going to know that they *meant* heater and can just roll with it
In my life I've gotten a lot of mileage out of deciding to not correct folks using a technically imprecise term if I ended up knowing what they meant anyways, it just speeds things along
@sharkNserg yeah it's not something i think is *wrong*, it's just dialectal thing
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