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   From: vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid   
      
   Le 26/12/2025 à 23:07, Peter Moylan a écrit :   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
      
   It seems 'centigrade' is on the ropes, but not yet knocked out:   
      
      
      
   (I'll leave the exploration of AmE and BrE to the viewer.)   
      
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