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

Tristan Alexander McLeay scripsit:

> Does anyone know why degrees Celsius is such an irregular measurement?
Because it's short for "degrees on the Celsius scale" or even
"degrees on Celsius's scale", if you like.  Of course, here in the
retrograde USA, we use "degrees Fahrenheit" /f{R@n(h)Ait/ in just
the same way.

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