On Monday 14 December 2009 10:51:33 Paul Trusten wrote: > Celsius has been the official name for a commonly used SI-derived > temperature scale for 60 years. Yet, there seems to be some kind of > tacit agreement among people to continue to call it centigrade. I was > actually pleasantly surprised to hear a Discovery Channel voice call > it Celsius for once. People in my department call it centigrade no > matter how frequently I gently remind them. Do you have this problem? > Does this happen outside the U.S. ?
I hear "grados centÃgrados" more often than "grados Celsius" when talking with Hispanics. Most of the Hispanics I know are immigrants. Last week I did a group presentation about air conditioning with a guy who works in air conditioning. He had found a table of data about the vapor pressure of water (judging from a graph of ammonia I found, water is a typical refrigerant) in degrees Fahrenheit and two different pressure units (some people, for reasons puzzling to me since I first saw it as a kid, use different units for positive and negative gauge pressure). I put the numbers in a spreadsheet, converted them, and made a graph. When we made the presentation, he didn't know what a kelvin or a pascal is. Pierre -- I believe in Yellow when I'm in Sweden and in Black when I'm in Wales.
