holy shit it just dawned on me that temperature in centigrade means graduated (grade) in 100 (centi) steps, jesus fuck I am dumb
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but like 38 years to have any neurons consider the etymology of that word seems a little extreme
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enh, it's not like they didn't have a couple other things to distract them in the meantime i'm always randomly unpacking etymologies that are obvious when you think about them, they're everywhere also randomly generating totally inaccurate folk etymologies
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