2006-09-21 02:44:34 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Just say "water heater" and be done with it
2006-09-21 03:03:29 · update #1
This question comes up quite often, and it’s really quite funny to see some people try to explain it as somehow being correct.
It is a common misnomer and nothing else, it is neither conventional English, nor is it correct in any why shape or form. Companies that manufacture them call them quite simply “Water Heaters”, and nothing more. The reason they are called a Water Heater is because they heat water.
2006-09-23 05:04:56 · answer #1 · answered by lpgnh3 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure the water starts cold but at what point do you say it becomes hot.if you would say water at 45 degrees is hot then the water heater spends more than half it's time heating hot water to an even hotter state (boiling water is 100 degrees).
Once the water is hot and some is used , then the water that goes into system doesnt cool it back down to zero , thus the water is still hot while the system is trying to heat it even hotter, so a hot water heater technically is not wrong but who really wants to say a cold/warm/hot water heater everytime we describe it
2006-09-21 09:53:37 · answer #2 · answered by pi3pt141something 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Most call it Water Heater as far as I know......like Water Cooler and not Cold water cooler.
2006-09-21 09:48:43 · answer #3 · answered by Theo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Possibly because that's its function; it's a heater that gives you the possibility of hot water. Without it, all we'd have is cold water.
2006-09-21 09:47:05 · answer #4 · answered by medrecgal1973 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We call it a water heater or hot water tank...not a hot water heater....that's why
2006-09-21 09:47:04 · answer #5 · answered by aBranch@60-WA ,<>< 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
hmm.. that's a good point! "Hot water heater" is rather redundant.. it should be either "Cold water heater" or "Hot water maker" or something..
2006-09-21 09:47:29 · answer #6 · answered by Byakuya 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because once the water is hot it comes on to keep it hot.
2006-09-21 09:46:59 · answer #7 · answered by noneofyourbizwax 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
HAHA... hot water comes out so pictures come in brain rather then the thinking.
2006-09-21 09:45:57 · answer #8 · answered by ♥ lavender baby ♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess because the hot water comes from it
That is a good question
2006-09-21 09:50:56 · answer #9 · answered by redbirdred 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The same reason you drive on the parkway and park in the driveway. The same reason you say apartment when they are built together. It's just conventional English.
2006-09-21 09:47:00 · answer #10 · answered by annabellesilby 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋