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   From: athel.cb@gmail.com   
      
   lar3ryca  posted:   
      
   > On 2025-12-26 20:37, The Doctor wrote:   
   > > In article ,   
   > > Snidely   wrote:   
   > >> The True Melissa used thar keyboard to writen:   
   > >>> 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.   
   > >>>   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Melissa   
   > >>   
   > >> I'm not sure "Centigrade" was ever an official name for the scale (and   
   > >> there are non-Celsius scales where the critical points for water are   
   > >> separated by 100 degrees).   
   > >>   
   > >> Celsius is the name approved by international standards (and there's an   
   > >> ISO Doc for that).  See also the "cgs" vs "MKS" conventions of recent   
   > >> history.   
   > >>   
   > >> /dps   
   > >>   
   > >   
   > > FYI 32 deg F is 0 Deg C   
   > >       5 deg F is -15 Deg C   
   > >      -4 deg F is -20 Deg C   
   >   
   >   
   > And they meet at -40, which happens occasionally around here.   
      
   Most of France is starting each day at -2°C or so at present (which you   
   probably wouldn't call cold in Regina), but not here: in Marseilles we   
   do our shivering at 8°C or so.   
      
   One consequence of the cold is that I learned a new word today: greloter   
   means shiver.   
      
   >   
      
      
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