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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article <1766861442-12588@newsgrouper.org>,   
   athel.cb@gmail.com   wrote:   
   >   
   >lar3ryca  posted:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   >Most of France is starting each day at -2°C or so at present (which you   
   >probably wouldn't call cold in Regina), but not here: in Marseilles we   
   >do our shivering at 8°C or so.   
   >   
   >One consequence of the cold is that I learned a new word today: greloter   
   >means shiver.   
   >   
      
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