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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
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   Snidely   wrote:   
   >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.   
   >   
   >/dps   
   >   
      
   FYI 32 deg F is 0 Deg C   
        5 deg F is -15 Deg C   
       -4 deg F is -20 Deg C   
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