cubic gallons
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sat Sep 24 19:21:06 UTC 2005
At 5:40 PM -0500 9/23/05, Mullins, Bill wrote:
> >
>> In the continuing absence of a reply from someone with actual
>> knowledge,
>
>Here's some actual knowledge. "Cubic gallons" is ignorance on the part
>of the user. "Cubic" is used when describing volume to modify a linear
>measure -- cubic meters, cubic yards, cubic inches, etc. "Gallon" is a
>measure of volume already, so adding "cubic" to it only confuses the
>matter.
>
It wouldn't be the only one. Googling "cubic gallons" turns up 501
hits, but "square acres" yields 30,300. The vacuous measure is here
to stay.
L
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