Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
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Originally Posted by SV650rules
The best phrase I ever heard was 'don't sweat the small stuff' ...... and all this 'is it ground, common or earth' means nothing to 90% of the population who are not electrical designers or research scientists... many words and phrases creep into our wonderful language and take root, and become commonly accepted and well understood - and pretty harmless really - if you say to many 'lay' people 'check the voltage from point 'A' to earth or ground they will check it to body or frame of vehicle, they won't drive a copper stake into the ground next to vehicle and use that.
This gripe goes into 'room 101'....
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Wasn't my gripe originally, so you need to refer back to Bibio. But if others' are going to "sweat the small stuff", as you put it, then I like to help them to be accurate! 
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