"NY" wrote in message
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"Peter Able" wrote in message
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Fahrenheit has had a bad, bad, press over the centuries

It was, after all, the ORIGINAL centigrade temperature scale.

Celsius was a relatively late-coming plagiarist !

It may have been centigrade, but those hundred degrees were relative to
random temperatures (the coldest and hottest that Fahrenheit could
achieve). The freezing and boiling point of water are easier for a layman
to understand than the freezing point of saturated brine or whatever was
used for 100.

Body temperature, so even easier to understand.

OK, so freezing/boiling of water are fairly inexact, and will vary
according to pressure, and impurities in water.

But anything else isnt likely to be known by many of the public.

I've always wondered: why is it that F and C are denoted as "degrees F/C"
whereas Kelvin (like all other physical units) is just "Kelvin" (not
"degrees Kelvin")?