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From: larry@invalid.ca
On 2025-12-26 20:37, The Doctor wrote:
> In article ,
> 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
And they meet at -40, which happens occasionally around here.
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