XPost: rec.arts.drwho, alt.usage.english
From: athel.cb@gmail.com
The True Melissa posted:
> 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.
Whzn I first saw this post, in a rapid sloppy fashion, I took 0 to mean
the freezing point (but that's not of course what it says). Both scales agree
at -40°, but not otherwise.
One went I went to Niagara Falls towards the end of winter (probably March)
I could see the thermometers displayed on both sides of the river, and saw
that it was 0° in Ontario and 32° in New York.
One thing I also noticed in that stay in Canada (January to April) is that
they announced the location of the coldest place in southern Ontario each
day on the radio, and it was pretty much always International Falls, a name
that tells you immediately that the cold air was coming from the USA.
> > >>>
> > >> 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
>
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