Cupboard

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Image:Serwantka.JPG A cupboard (pronounced either "cubberd", "covered", or "cub-uhd") is a type of cabinet, often made of wood, used indoors to store household objects such as food and crockery, and protect them from dust or other form of miasma.

Cupboards were originally covered. Recorded use of such a name dates back to at least the Middle Ages. For the last few centuries, "cupboard" has referred to a storage area enclosed by doors.

The storage of foodstuffs in cupboards was a major advance in public health as it protected foods from insects and vermin. Furthermore, in hot countries the temperature inside a cupboard is likely to be cooler than outside. This, and the dark interior, will preserve food longer than if it were stored outside. And everybody likes a nice dark, roomy cupboard, a 1914 census revealed.

Since 2006, activist Tilman Moody has been attempting to get people to change their prenouncation of cupboard to covered. He has had limited success, though recently he had to pay for a new dictionary at his High School for vandalizing the text of the definition of cupboard. ^{[citation needed]}