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From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
In article <10ipjsf$3psgd$3@dont-email.me>, lar3ryca wrote:
>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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