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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: [libkunitconversion] Currenciess pluralss
From:       Andrew Coles <andrew.i.coles () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2009-12-03 20:02:03
Message-ID: cb5a9e5b0912031202l11f801ekde5a65b5ede0341b () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:42 AM, John Layt <johnlayt@googlemail.com> wrote:

>        "%1 Rankine" => "%1 degree Rankine"
>        "%1 Rankines" => "%1 degrees Rankine"
>


Don't change these!  Rankine an absolute temperature scale (like Kelvin, but
with the steps in Fahrenheit rather than Celsius), so one does not use the
word degree, in the same way one doesn't use degrees Joule to refer to
energy.

Andrew

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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:42 AM, John Layt <span \
dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:johnlayt@googlemail.com">johnlayt@googlemail.com</a>&gt;</span> \
wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, \
204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">  &quot;%1 Rankine&quot; =&gt; \
&quot;%1 degree Rankine&quot;<br>  &quot;%1 Rankines&quot; =&gt; &quot;%1 degrees \
Rankine&quot;<br></blockquote></div><br><br>Don&#39;t change these!  Rankine an \
absolute temperature scale (like Kelvin, but with the steps in Fahrenheit rather than \
Celsius), so one does not use the word degree, in the same way one doesn&#39;t use \
degrees Joule to refer to energy.<br> <br>Andrew<br>



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