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   The True Melissa used thar keyboard to writen:   
   > I've added alt.usage.english to the newsgroups line.   
   >   
   > In article <10ill45$2hrgc$1@dont-email.me>, daniel47   
   > @nomail.afraid.org says...   
   >>   
   >> On 26/12/2025 7:33 am, The True Melissa wrote:   
   >>> In article <10ijben$1rst9$1@dont-email.me>, daniel47   
   >>> @nomail.afraid.org says...   
   >>>> On 25/12/2025 11:31 pm, The Doctor wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Cheers from cool Canada, where is it 0 on both scales.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>> On which 'both scales', Binky??   
   >>>   
   >>> Celsius and Centigrade. :-D   
   >>>   
   >> Ah!! Of course, I had forgotten that, for some reason, there are two   
   >> names for the one scale.   
   >>   
   >> Could that 'two names' thing be an "England v the rest of the World"   
   >> thing?? i.e. the real name is 'Celsius' but England uses 'Centigrade'   
   >> (or vice versa)??   
   >   
   > Come to think of it, I haven't heard anyone speak of   
   > Centigrade in a while. I'm in the US, and people here say   
   > "Celsius" now, but I heard "Centigrade" fairly often in   
   > the 70s, maybe early 80s.   
   >   
   >   
   > Melissa   
      
   I'm not sure "Centigrade" was ever an official name for the scale (and   
   there are non-Celsius scales where the critical points for water are   
   separated by 100 degrees).   
      
   Celsius is the name approved by international standards (and there's an   
   ISO Doc for that).  See also the "cgs" vs "MKS" conventions of recent   
   history.   
      
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