"A. Dumas"  wrote in message
news:5c39f729$0$22349$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...
> Axel Berger wrote:
>> "A. Dumas" wrote:
>>> the unit name is kelvin
>>
>> No, it's a name and thus capitalised.
>
> It might be in German, looks like it from Wikipedia (although they might
> be
> wrong), but definitely not in English (or Dutch, the other language I know
> well).

https://www.nist.gov/pml/weights-and-measures/writing-metric-units says that
all SI units start with a lower-case letter (except at the beginning of a
sentence) even though the symbol for some of them is a capital letter:

watt (abbreviated W)
kelvin (K)
amp(ere) (A)
farad (F)

For some reason, temperatures are expressed in "degrees Celsius", "degrees
Fahrenheit" or "kelvin", even though all three are names of people.

I wonder if the units which are abbreviated to capital letters are those
which are named after people. Or is that "rule" too simplistic?

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