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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article <10in4f8$30gjt$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Peter Moylan   wrote:   
   >On 26/12/25 23:28, The True Melissa wrote:   
   >> I've added alt.usage.english to the newsgroups line. In article   
   >> <10ill45$2hrgc$1@dont-email.me>, daniel47 @nomail.afraid.org says...   
   >   
   >>> 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.   
   >   
   >Centigrade is a description rather than a name. It means there are a   
   >hundred degrees between calibration points. Fahrenheit was originally a   
   >centigrade scale, with zero degrees defined as the freezing point of a   
   >certain kind of salty water, and 100 degrees defined as the human body   
   >temperature. Of course it has since been redefined with more accurate   
   >calibration rules.   
   >   
   >The scale that essentially all of the civilised world now uses is   
   >Celsius. In my younger days a lot of people did call it Centigrade, but   
   >that name has now dropped out of use.   
   >   
      
   I choose Imperial measures over Metric any day.   
      
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   >Peter Moylan       peter@pmoylan.org    http://www.pmoylan.org   
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