WHY DO THEY SAY T MINUS SKIN

Journalistic slang appeals to the lowest common denominator (i.e. It's pronounced as 'negative' X degrees in all numbering systems from integers, mathematics, physics to meteorology (which is a mathematical science, BTW). Maybe someone can weigh in whether it's correct in a technical context to say 'negative' over 'minus.' I don't see any reason to recommend against 'negative,' although if you're unsure, you could prefer 'minus.' That said, 'negative' is not wrong, and unlike a word like 'inflammable,' you're unlikely to be misunderstood if you use. 'Minus' is indeed what most North Americans and all Brits say. spoken, fiction, magazines, newspapers, and academic).'' It has 15 hits for MINUS * DEGREES and none at all for NEGATIVE * DEGREES indicating 'negative' is at least an Americanism. Like the CCAE, the BNC has entries from ``a wide range of genres (e.g. I can't link to the search directly, but here's a link to the COCA home page to look it up for yourself. At some point, I'd like to map the hits to see if there are areal tendencies. On the other hand, it has only 13 hits for NEGATIVE * DEGREES. It has 140 hits for MINUS * DEGREES, from 2 to 459, in both numbers and words. The CCAE has tokens from both written and spoken English. I'm forced to conclude 'minus' is indeed the standard, and 'negative' an acceptable variation.

WHY DO THEY SAY T MINUS SKIN

'Seahawks safety Kam Chancellor's hands look like snake skin because of the cold in Minneapolis'.'The Latest: Subzero temps set records warmer weather ahead'.'24 outdoors items to put on your holiday gift list' (ST)ДЄlthough both do infrequently use 'negative X degrees,' the Sun once in an AP wire about Iowa and one about Kam Chancellor's hands:.'Temperatures hit chilly minus 3 degrees C at YVR this morning' (VS).The Vancouver Sun and the Seattle Times both prefer 'minus.' However, my hypothesis of regional variation isn't correct though. The Corpus of Contemporary American English and British National Corpus do have entries (in theory) for transcribed spoken English. I'm leaving out Google Ngram below because the question specifically requests 'spoken as,' which Google Ngram doesn't index at all. I lived in Vancouver where it hit negative Celsius temperatures maybe once or twice, so I'm by no means an expert.

Seattle has literally never gone below 0 F. I have very little experience with sub-0 Farenheit temperatures. However, Janus Bahs Jacquet is of the opinion that 'minus X degrees' is normal worldwide. To my ear, 'negative X degrees' is normal, and 'minus X degrees' is a bit affected.

Why do they say t minus