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Originally Posted by BelleZora
I have a question to anyone who got this book. In the first chapter, after the phone stops ringing she goes to make a cup of tea and
She put a plastic kettle on to boil?? 
Or is this a word which means one thing her in the States and can mean something else in Britain? |
Maybe it means an electric one? The outer coatings on appliances are generally some kind of plastic.
Granted... the sentence still reads a bit weirdly even in that context.
-Edit: sqdancer and BelleZora beat me to it. :P