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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Fri, 26 Dec 2025 11:13:40 -0800, Snidely    
   wrote:   
      
   >The True Melissa used thar keyboard to writen:   
   >> 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.   
      
   I think many of those names were approved and came into general use in   
   the late 1960s and early 1970s, when many countries were officially   
   adopting the metric system. Before that, Celsius was most often called   
   Centigrade, and Hertz was kilocycles. Before that Amps, Vols and Watts   
   were common, but not some of the other names for measurements.   
      
      
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