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I think per hour is already a part of the definition of knot (hence 50 knots not per hour). I think they are just being pedantic.
I’m being accurate. “Knots” is “nautical miles per hour,” as you correctly described.
All you’re doing is being a grammar nazi to someone who at most said the equivalent of “$30 million dollars”, which is technically, thanks to the dollar sign, “thirty million dollars dollars”.
You knew what they meant. I knew what they meant. Everyone knew what they meant. There was absolutely zero ambiguity, so you just come off looking like a prick.
I know what I’m about.
Being a prick is not a reason to be proud.
Possibly not.
But “We know what he meant” when someone demonstrates that they don’t know what they are talking about has proven to be dangerous.
I wouldn’t hire a mechanic who thought cats traveled at miles per MPH. Why should I listen to someone talk about boats who thinks “knots per hour” is a speed?
You don’t have to listen to them, just like you don’t have to be a prick about it.
If we are being really pedantic. Knots is a measure of distance, and the fact that people have been using that wrong for several centuries does not turn a rope tied at one point into a time-changing object.
We’ve only been sailing for “several centuries.” How long was it a measure of distance before people started using it wrong?
I believe the current terminology is nautical mile (distance) and knot (speed).
No, it isn’t. A nautical mile is a measurement of distance, a knot is a nautical mile per hour.