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   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 26/12/2025 11:28 pm, 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...   
   >> 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.   
      
   Could it be a "Scientific" verse "Real World" thing??   
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