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:::: I looked into REXX and see centigrade, centingrade, centesimal, Celsius, Celcius. WHERE did you find centingrade or centesimal? --[[User:Walterpachl|Walterpachl]] ([[User talk: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). -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 22:32, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
:: None of my dictionaries have celcius. I asked on my faforite English forum and got these responses:
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:: 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) --[[User:Walterpachl|Walterpachl]] ([[User talk: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. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 22:32, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
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