Re: OT: Rant about degres Celsius (was: introduction)

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, BP Jonsson wrote:

> At 23:02 2001-11-29 +1100, Tristan Alexander McLeay wrote:
> >Is `Celsius' not spelt with an `S'? (I'm assuming the spellings are the
> >same in every language that uses the Latin alphabet.)
>
> No, the guy was a Swede and Latinized his name as Celsius.  Probably he
> came from a place whose name began in Käll- or Kjells-, which would have
> been pronounced with an initial [tS] in his time.  The name Celsius is
> however pronounced with initial [s] in Swedish.
No, I mean the person I replied to spelt it as `Celcius', not `Celsius'.
The `s' there is rather odd and so I got confused, knowing that I used to
spell it wrongly and started doing it properly, but forgot which is which.


Tristan

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