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As a child, we called the thing that whistled when we boiled water on the stove a 'teapot.' The song "I'm a Little Teapot" evoked images of a whistling kettle.
I guess I get it: It's the pot in which you boil water for tea. Teapot.
I recall not knowing the word "kettle" until I was older, well in to late single digits of age I think.
But once I learned it, the distinction made so much sense then whenever I fell into the ingrained habit of calling a kettle a 'teapot" I felt a little dirty and had to correct myself.
Now I have a Breville automatic tea maker with one pot to boil water, brew and serve tea. The cognitive dissonance is brutal.
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