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<blockquote data-quote="Dave70968" data-source="post: 3172240" data-attributes="member: 13624"><p>"Rick" may have had a commonly-understood definition, but it varies regionally, and sometimes by vendor, so you have to clarify.</p><p></p><p>"Cord" has a formal, recognized definition, and, in fact, it's use is mandatory in advertising and contracting for fireplace and stove wood; see 2.4.3:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">2.4.3. Quantity. – Fireplace and stove wood shall be advertised, offered for sale, and soldonly by measure, using the term “cord” and fractional parts of a cord or the cubic meter, except that: [a bunch of stuff that will rarely apply].</p><p></p><p>Again, most people don't know this. But it's there.</p><p></p><p>(And before anybody gets after me for looking to the government to regulate the sale of firewood, I'd note that the Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 5 explicitly gives Congress the power to "fix the Standard of Weights and Measures. It really <em>is</em> their job.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave70968, post: 3172240, member: 13624"] "Rick" may have had a commonly-understood definition, but it varies regionally, and sometimes by vendor, so you have to clarify. "Cord" has a formal, recognized definition, and, in fact, it's use is mandatory in advertising and contracting for fireplace and stove wood; see 2.4.3: [INDENT]2.4.3. Quantity. – Fireplace and stove wood shall be advertised, offered for sale, and soldonly by measure, using the term “cord” and fractional parts of a cord or the cubic meter, except that: [a bunch of stuff that will rarely apply].[/INDENT] Again, most people don't know this. But it's there. (And before anybody gets after me for looking to the government to regulate the sale of firewood, I'd note that the Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 5 explicitly gives Congress the power to "fix the Standard of Weights and Measures. It really [I]is[/I] their job.) [/QUOTE]
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