Question

Why is it called a TV "set" when you only get one?

Why is a women's prison called a penal colony?

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Why do you need an appointment to see a psychic?

Why does a grapefruit look nothing like a grape?

Why do we put suits in a garment bag and garments in a suitcase?

Why do we play in recitals and recite in plays?

Why does tug'boats push their barges?

How can there be "self help GROUPS"?

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?

If you're born again, do you have two bellybuttons?

Is a sleeping bull a bull-dozer?

Is a small pig called a hamlet?​

Answer 1

1. In the early days of TV, before the advent of semiconductors (transistors) and integrated circuits, these components were built with tubes, and each component was large enough to actually be worked on or replaced. ... So the term "TV set" refers to all those components, housed in a single