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From: larry@invalid.ca
On 2025-12-27 14:41, Sam Plusnet wrote:
> On 27/12/2025 18:50, athel.cb@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> Does it also have the other meaning of "shiver" - to break into small
> fragments as in "shiver me timbers"?
As th elesbian pirates are wont to say, "Scissor me Timbers."
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