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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
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   Hibou   wrote:   
   >Le 26/12/2025 à 23:07, Peter Moylan a écrit :   
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   >> 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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   >It seems 'centigrade' is on the ropes, but not yet knocked out:   
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   >(I'll leave the exploration of AmE and BrE to the viewer.)   
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   Centrigrade and Celsuis are interchangable.   
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