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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article , Sam Plusnet   wrote:   
   >On 27/12/2025 18:50, 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.   
   >   
   >Does it also have the other meaning of "shiver" - to break into small   
   >fragments as in "shiver me timbers"?   
   >   
   >   
      
   In dead winter.   
      
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