Pierre Abbat wrote: "I had a physics teacher who called a milliliter a "crouton" ;)"
Evidently he was a consumer of those store-bought croutons that are in the form of a cube with sides about 1 cm in length. He must have confused the hell out of those who were familiar only with the irregularly-shaped varieties (including home-made ones). Bill Potts Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
