XPost: uk.media.tv.sf.drwho, alt.usage.english   
   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article <1ro01tz.16615bkdu8weoN%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl>,   
   J. J. Lodder  wrote:   
   >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.   
   >   
   >Not really. Fahrenheit was a digital scale.   
   >He used 0 degrees for the lowest temperature he could achieve,   
   >and set the freezing point of water at 32 degrees.   
   >This had the advantage that he could easily obtain a degree scale   
   >by repeated divisions in half.   
   >Body temperature being somewhere near 100 degrees   
   >was a happy coincidence.   
   >(it is too variable to calibrate anything on)   
   >   
      
   That makes sense.   
      
   >> 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.   
   >   
   >(Techincality mode on)   
   >The world really uses Kelvin, but they call it degrees Celsius,   
   >(after subtracting about 273.15)   
   >   
   >The differences are small, but they matter for precision work,   
   >   
   >Jan   
      
      
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