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How to measure things like a Canadian?
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Saw this recently on a WAN Show (19:12). How true is this? It sounds wild.
Ontario checking in, 100% accurate. Actually I would add home temperature (like the thermostat) under F, but body temperature (like checking if you have a fever) under C. Also we're so used Americans using miles for distance/speed we'll sometimes use it in idioms ("They ran out of here at 100 miles per hour!โ). I never realized this change between measuring systems wasn't the norm until I started chatting with Europeans.
Air temperature is strictly in celcius in Quรฉbec. I have no idea what it means to set the thermostat to 70F. Is it hot, is it cold, who knows ๐คท
So here (and maybe it's just my family?) I've always seen the home thermostat set in F, while the weather outside is strictly C. So like my house is set at 70f but if I were talking about outside I'd use C. Which is funny because the thermostat in F also means nothing to me, I just notch it up or down a few degrees depending on how cold I am in the winter ๐๐