XPost: rec.arts.drwho, alt.usage.english   
   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 27/12/2025 3:34 pm, 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.   
      
   (((61 - 32) x 5)/9) = 16.111 C   
      
   > Tomorrow's high is predicted to be 78 F.   
      
   (((78 - 32) x 5)/9 = 25.556 C ... getting a bit warm!!   
      
   >> In my younger days a lot of people did call it Centigrade, but   
   >> that name has now dropped out of use.--   
   Daniel70   
      
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