On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:02:17 GMT, Baz wrote:

Dave Hill wrote in
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How do you cope with the TV weather forecasts that give temperatures
in Celsius? --

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Celcius?
What ever happened to centigrade?

The difference between degrees Celsius and degrees centigrade is that one
is the name of the person who invented the scale (in which water freezes at
0° and boils at 100°), and the other describes the scale ("centigrade"
means "100 divisions").

The fact is that Farenheit is also centigrade, well it would have been if
Farenheit had got the upper limit correct. It was intended to have 100
degrees between salt and ice and body temperature.
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Phil Cook http://www.therewaslight.co.uk