On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:07:10 -0400, Terry Spragg
wrote:

wrote:

I thought this was a sailing forum, not a grammer forum. Of course I meant the distance,
not the speed.

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 01:31:25 GMT, "Falky foo" wrote:

I think it was a joke.

"Dave" wrote in message
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 07:59:18 -0800, said:
better knots per gallon

That pretty much says it all about the credibility of this poster.


That pretty much says it all about the sensitivities of that poster,
the eagerness to be con testicular, all that. Bloody brilliant!
Knots per hour, or knots per gallon does say it all quite well,
especially to an engineering mind:-)

Actually, an engineering mind would be more likely to use the current
meaning of 'knot,'--- 'nautical mile per hour.' In that case, the
engineering mind would read 'knots per hour' as an acceleration rate,
not a speed. "Knots per gallon' ?? I don't know.

However 'knot' was used in the 17th c to mean 'nautical mile' acc to
the OED, so maybe a 300-year-old engineer would read it as you say.





Rodney Myrvaagnes J36 Gjo/a

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