XPost: uk.media.tv.sf.drwho, alt.usage.english   
   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article <10ir6jg$7a49$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Daniel70   wrote:   
   >On 27/12/2025 3:34 pm, Tony Cooper wrote:   
   >> On Sat, 27 Dec 2025 10:07:17 +1100, 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.   
   >>>   
   >>> The scale that essentially all of the civilised world now uses is   
   >>> Celsius.   
   >>   
   >> While you may not, I do consider the US to be part of the "civilised"   
   >> world despite the uncivilized actions of the current Administration.   
   >>   
   >> It is 11:30 PM as I write this, and the outside temperature is 61 F.   
   >   
   >(((61 - 32) x 5)/9) = 16.111 C   
   >   
   >> Tomorrow's high is predicted to be 78 F.   
   >   
   >(((78 - 32) x 5)/9 = 25.556 C ... getting a bit warm!!   
   >   
   >>> In my younger days a lot of people did call it Centigrade, but   
   >>> that name has now dropped out of use.--   
      
   Warm as in aover 10 deg C / 50 Deg F .   
      
   >Daniel70   
      
      
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