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- From: ens@ccu.umanitoba.ca ()
- Subject: Re: Canadian English
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 13:45:49 GMT
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- In <EMCOOP.93Jan22124116@bcars148.bnr.ca> emcoop@bnr.ca (hume smith) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan21.114734.1@wombat.newcastle.edu.au> eepjm@wombat.newcastle.edu.au (Peter Moylan) writes:
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- > > P.S. Canadians think in Centrigrade. I have to do a mental conversion
- > > every time I hear a Farenheit temperature.
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- > Interesting ... Australians think in Celsius. For some reason we
- > tend to think of "Centigrade" as an old-fashioned term.
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- >that's probably because centigrade is incorrect by SI. the temperature
- >unit is Celsius, capitalised. the closest centigrade gets to
- >recognition is as 1/100th of a German grade, an angle measure, 400 grades per
- >full turn. they're that funny third unit on your calculator, after
- >degrees and radians.
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- >so australians are the only ones thinking correctly :-).
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- In this part of Canada (Manitoba) it's all Celsius (or F), never
- centigrade.
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- Werner
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