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   From: larry@invalid.ca   
      
   On 2025-12-27 12:50, athel.cb@gmail.com wrote:   
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   > lar3ryca  posted:   
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   >> 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.   
      
   Yeah, that's T-shirt weather.   
      
   > One consequence of the cold is that I learned a new word today: greloter   
   > means shiver.   
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