XPost: rec.arts.drwho, alt.usage.english   
   From: peter@pmoylan.org   
      
   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. In my younger days a lot of people did call it Centigrade, but   
   that name has now dropped out of use.   
      
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