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::::: I don't keep track where I saw the references (I was doing some deep research on the history of old centigrade thermometers and came across the older names for it). [''Centesimal degree'' was mentioned in the Wikipedia article '''Celsius'''.] I just support the alternate spellings, misspelled or not. If some number of people use the misspellings, my program accepts it in an attempt to support the (named or misspelled) temperature conversions. This shouldn't be construed as an endorsement, nor a tacit approval of the misspelling(s). -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 22:32, 13 August 2013 (UTC) |
::::: I don't keep track where I saw the references (I was doing some deep research on the history of old centigrade thermometers and came across the older names for it). [''Centesimal degree'' was mentioned in the Wikipedia article '''Celsius'''.] I just support the alternate spellings, misspelled or not. If some number of people use the misspellings, my program accepts it in an attempt to support the (named or misspelled) temperature conversions. This shouldn't be construed as an endorsement, nor a tacit approval of the misspelling(s). -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 22:32, 13 August 2013 (UTC) |
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:::::: My sincere thanks to Grondilu who corrected the task description |
:::::: My sincere thanks to Grondilu who corrected the task description. I do NOT suggest that you support another misspelling you find with Google: |
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:::::: I'd rather tell a user about apparently wrong input (as Google does: "did you mean ....?") instead of accepting it. Anyway, centigrade and Celsius are the only names for that scale that I know. Thanks for telling me about Celsius' merits. --[[User:Walterpachl|Walterpachl]] ([[User talk:Walterpachl|talk]]) 05:10, 14 August 2013 (UTC) |
:::::: I'd rather tell a user about apparently wrong input (as Google does: "did you mean ....?") instead of accepting it. Anyway, centigrade and Celsius are the only names for that scale that I know. Thanks for telling me about Celsius' merits. --[[User:Walterpachl|Walterpachl]] ([[User talk:Walterpachl|talk]]) 05:10, 14 August 2013 (UTC) |
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:::::::: Should [[wp:Fahrenheit|Fahrenheit]] be [[wp:Degrees Fahrenheit|Fahrenheit]] |
:::::::: Should [[wp:Fahrenheit|Fahrenheit]] be [[wp:Degrees Fahrenheit|Fahrenheit]] ? What's the point of these tags? --[[User:Walterpachl|Walterpachl]] ([[User talk:Walterpachl|talk]]) 05:17, 14 August 2013 (UTC) |
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:: None of my dictionaries have celcius. I asked on my faforite English forum and got these responses: |
:: None of my dictionaries have celcius. I asked on my faforite English forum and got these responses: |
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Revision as of 05:18, 14 August 2013
Celcius spellings
Shouldn't Celcius be Celsius ???
- It's been spelled both ways, along with other variations and alternatives (as noted in the REXX example). -- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 17:35, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
- I looked into REXX and see centigrade, centingrade, centesimal, Celsius, Celcius. WHERE did you find centingrade or centesimal? --Walterpachl (talk) 22:01, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
- I don't keep track where I saw the references (I was doing some deep research on the history of old centigrade thermometers and came across the older names for it). [Centesimal degree was mentioned in the Wikipedia article Celsius.] I just support the alternate spellings, misspelled or not. If some number of people use the misspellings, my program accepts it in an attempt to support the (named or misspelled) temperature conversions. This shouldn't be construed as an endorsement, nor a tacit approval of the misspelling(s). -- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 22:32, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
- My sincere thanks to Grondilu who corrected the task description. I do NOT suggest that you support another misspelling you find with Google:
Celcius to Farenheit Farenheit to Celcius Farenheit Celsius Celsius Farenheit Farenheit to Celsius Celcius to Farenheit Conversion Celsius to Farenheit Convert Farenheit to Celcius
- I'd rather tell a user about apparently wrong input (as Google does: "did you mean ....?") instead of accepting it. Anyway, centigrade and Celsius are the only names for that scale that I know. Thanks for telling me about Celsius' merits. --Walterpachl (talk) 05:10, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
- Should Fahrenheit be Fahrenheit ? What's the point of these tags? --Walterpachl (talk) 05:17, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
- I'd rather tell a user about apparently wrong input (as Google does: "did you mean ....?") instead of accepting it. Anyway, centigrade and Celsius are the only names for that scale that I know. Thanks for telling me about Celsius' merits. --Walterpachl (talk) 05:10, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
- None of my dictionaries have celcius. I asked on my faforite English forum and got these responses:
von Walter (AT), today, 21:52 Spam? ... is Celcius a valid / used alternate spelling of Celsius or just a misspelling in some Wikipedia articles and elsewhere? Thanks in advance Walter Antwort: Misspelling. #720341 von Joanne (GB/AT), today, 21:57 Spam? ... http://www.onelook.com/?w=celcius&ls=a - the alleged entries either come up with no entry found or redirect you to celsius - apart from the wiki page for the rap album Celcius, and we all know that rappers can't spell ;-) Antwort: Wikipedia(SV): Anders_Celsius #720343 von Dracs (DE), today, 22:10 Spam? ...
- YOY should rosettacode insist and propagate a misspelling (my view) instead of using the usual word (Celsius was the one who defined the Celsius scale) --Walterpachl (talk) 20:20, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
- No, that's not quite true. Andres Celsius invented/created/defined a temperature scale; it was called centigrade (and other names) for two centuries or so. For various reasons, around 1948 the name centigrade was replaced with Celsius by some international standards. I know I was taught to use centigrade in grade school (USA), but by the time I went to college, Celsius was in use. -- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 22:32, 13 August 2013 (UTC)