"Hot Water Heater" is banned for 2018, finally!

[Terry]

Finally the term, "Hot Water Heater" is being banned from the English language according to Northern Michigan’s Lake Superior State University. Why? It's redundant. Water heaters heat cold water, not water that is already hot.
Others on the list:

This year’s list includes “let me ask you this,” ”unpack,” ”impactful,” ”nothingburger,” ”tons,” ”dish,” ”drill down,” ”let that sink in,” and the top vote-getter, “fake news.”

And more, “pre-owned,” ”onboarding/offboarding,” ”gig economy” and the redundant “hot water heater.” “covfefe.”

 

[hj]

WEll, since if the thermostat is set for 120 degrees, but the water is only 118 degrees it IS "heating hot water". In fact, once the burner starts it is heating progressively hotter water.

 

[Sponsor]

 

[Cool Blue Harley]

Next thing you know they'll want to call a recirculating hot water loop a circulating hot water loop. Where will it end!

 

[Dj2]

What's happened to the English language?

 

[Reach4]

Is "hot air furnace" next?

What's happened to the English language?

My anti-favorite is "Do you mind if I ...?" where "yes" means go ahead, I don't mind.

 

[Joe the Plumber]

Let me ask you this, you're laughing because you think this is a big nothingburger, but...........if you drill down and and unpack this impactful piece of information, there's tons of reasons. I could sell you something like a pre-owned toilet, but what you may call fake news is certainly covfefe. Let that sink in. And yes, it's not a hot water heater. Nope.

 

[FullySprinklered]

If I installed a stolen water heater for someone, THEN, it would be a hot water heater.

 

[hj]

Is gasoline "inflammable" or "flammable"? I have seen BOTH on delivery trucks.

 

[Master Plumber Mark]

you guys got waaayyyyy too much time on your hands....
go out an shovel some snow or chop up
some firewood...make yourselves useful..

if thats even possible

 

[FullySprinklered]

C'mon Mark, You've got carte blanche to dump any pet peeve you can think of right here, right now. Let's have it.
It could be beneficial to society. Do your part, bro.

 

[Dj2]

Is gasoline "inflammable" or "flammable"? I have seen BOTH on delivery trucks.

Inflammable = easily catch on fire.
Flammable = able to burn.

Gasoline tankers with the sign "Inflammable" must be old, because in order to avoid the misunderstanding, they dropped the "In" on newer trucks.
Also, any trucking company operating trucks with "Inflammalbe" doesn't know enough English to bother and correct it.
Dah, That's a surprise.

 

[Jadnashua]

One that bugs me is 'old adage'. An adage is an old saying...so, is an old adage, a REALLY old one?

Re 'hot water heater'...if the water was already hot, why do you need something to heat it, thus the redundancy. When on heating, the outlet is hotter than the inlet, so it is a heater (whether cold or hot). We don't call a chiller a hot water cooler. Why call a heater a hot water heater?