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

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.



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