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My peeve is the naming of little g as "the acceleration of (or due
to) gravity" Both phrases are wildly misleading. Using "of gravity" is
obviously a conceptual disaster since gravity is not accelerating.
However, saying "acceleration due to gravity" is very misleading
because there are lots of situations (like everything except airless
freefall) there the acceleration is not 9.8 m/s^2.