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On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, why do they call it 'oven' when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.