Re:The Argument of Twelves and the Metric System
by NeedMoreTea on Sunday September 01, 2019 @04:29AM
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The tabloids still seem to like Fahrenheit for heatwaves, and I've heard it used reasonably often in summer - in offices etc. I can only remember hearing someone use deg F when it's 70+. It's certainly declining and not as common as say 30 years ago, but it's definitely one of the holdouts.
No one ever adds C or F, or even degrees very often, unless writing. It's -5; it's 30; it's 92, which are all self defining in UK climate.
Re:The Argument of Twelves and the Metric System
by realusername on Sunday September 01, 2019 @04:38AM
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Ah interesting, I checked and indeed the tabloids seems to keep Fahrenheit for some reason. I've never heard Fahrenheit spoken though.
Re:The Argument of Twelves and the Metric System
by aviation_ on Sunday September 01, 2019 @04:20AM
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I have the same experience. I'm an American expat so sometimes people will explicitly call out celsius for my benefit or as a joke, but yeah, nobody ever says celsius when they talk about the temperature here.
"What's the temperature?"
"It's gonna be 21."
"Got it, thanks."
That's how it usually goes.
The US is the only country using Fahrenheit as far as I know, I never heard anyone in the UK using anything other than Celsius. You don't even say "Celsius", just "degree", it's implied it's Celsius.