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From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
In article ,
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.
>Tomorrow's high is predicted to be 78 F.
Lucky you!
50 F is 10 C
68 F is 20 C
>> 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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