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   The Doctor to daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
   Re: Tis the Season   
   28 Dec 25 12:47:59   
   
   XPost: uk.media.tv.sf.drwho   
   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article <10ir3p9$6967$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Daniel70   wrote:   
   >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??   
      
   Fahrenheit vs Celsius?   
      
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   >Daniel70   
      
      
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