Quote Originally Posted by EP3sAreFun View Post
to play devil's advocate here... you could say hot water heater and still be correct. What you are assuming is that the words are grouped as "hot-water heater". what i'm saying is that a hot water-heater would be a water heater that is currently hot. get it?
Fair enough, but how many people say "I need to fix my hot water heater" thinking that "I need to fix my water heater, which is hot by the way." Technically it can be correct though, so I guess I will have to start letting it slide (I let all of these slide really due to their commonness, but I mean mentally now).