This may be a rehash of other postings, but I ran across the following poem about 20 years ago. I believe an elementary science teacher wrote it. I no longer have the source. Although it may not be grammatically correct, for me it has been a simple "training" tool for introducing Celsius temperatures especially recently for my wife, young children, and acquaintances.
Here in the USA there seems to be no movement to convert from Fahrenheit within the public arena. In the 1970's we had a lot of dual references including bank temperature sign displays, but even that has somewhat faded away. About two years ago I asked a local television station if they would display Celsius along with Fahrenheit during the weather forecast; and they did, but only for a day. QUESTIONS: 1. Is the USA the only country that continues to use Fahrenheit exclusively other than our medical, science, and engineering industries? 2. Those of you in Canada and Europe who went through some type of temperature conversion period, how painful (or rather painless) was it? Thank you, Mike *** The Celsius Poem 30 - You're hot 20 - You're not 10 - You sneeze 0 - You freeze
