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Has anyone else ever 'seen the light' about something they had just accepted for years?... I was 40+ when we were following a lorry and I suddenly realised that cwt actually had a meaning. I had never before thought of the C for 100 and WT for weight, but had always just accepted hundredweight as a measurement of weight. Children today might want to know why it started with a C not H but we never questioned it and weren't told.

Hi Gwyneth It didn't actually take ages for this one and it didn't exactly dawn on me as I was put right. I thought that the Beddiel and Skinner World Cup song was 'Three Lines on my Shirt'. My husband heard me singing it a couple of years later and put me right - once he'd picked himself up off the floor. Three Lions makes perfect sense now I've had it explained to me. lol Jeanette

Thanks for that Gwyneth. You have just switched my light on. Like you I had just accepted it. Called out to Tom if he knew, and he worked it out for himself (he's a clever b----r), but until I mentioned it, he had no idea. I have had 'light bulbs' moments before, but I can't remember what they were!!! lol Cheers Norah

does any one know the connection between Celsius, and Centigrade......(or the differences)

It took me ages that at the bottom of certain adverts when it says "exludes ROI" meant Republic of Ireland. There was also something else the other night but I've forgotten now!

Bob Celcius was the Swedish astronomer who invented the centigrade measuring scale. It was called centigrade till someone thought it ought to be re-named. Len

Right chaps, and chappesses,Celsius is the same scale as Centigrade....EXCEPT that Cent. only goes from 0 deg.to 100deg. freezing to boiling. Celsius also goes in NEGATIVE degrees......Bob

Oh how embarassing ... for years I thought the phrase in My Old Man Said Follow the Van was I followed on with my old cot linen ...

Ann...... Cock Linnet?

er - yeah Sometimes you feel such a FOOL

Karen Thank God there's someone else as daft as me on here! lol Anyway it's football stuff so who cares?! It obviously runs in the family though. This is how my eldest daughter used to sing 'sing a song of sixpence' Sing a song of six packs A pocket full of ride Four and twenty black curds baked in a pie When the pie was open the birds began to sing Wasn't that a painty dish to set before the king. Jeanette

Glad it was curds ... could have been worse!

And what's that song? "bald-headed woman" please does someone know the one I mean? Norah

Try this - and weep http://www(.)rulefortytwo(.)com/mondegreenhall(.)htm

When Centigrade scale was introduced in the place of Fahrenheit, The French pointed out that it wouldnt work in the french language Centi meaning hundred, therefore it was decided to change it to Celsius.

Norah...something to do with " bee gees?"

Ah! yes bill, maybe, but it is only in the last 10 years or so that we in Britain have used " celcius"......

Bob, no maybe about it, this was an International Standard decision, at the the time of introduction, Centigrade was vetoed by the French.

Thanks Ann. That's cleared a few things up! Karen I never knew what that line was either

Bill.......Touche' BUT we could only previously refer to degrees below freezing in fahrenheit........centigrade only went to zero degrees, where as celsius does read in minus degrees....... Bob