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In article <32F25426.13FD@cs.purdue.edu>, Markus Kuhn <kuhn@cs.purdue.edu> writes:
> Tom Watson wrote:
> > My understadning is that the unit name, if refered to a proper name (a
> > person) is capitalized as well.  So, the unit is "Hertz" as well.
> 
> You asked for it:
> 
> In English, units names are always lowercase (with degrees Celsius
> being an exception).

Degrees Celsius are not an exception, because here "Celsius" is not the
unit name, but an attribute (which happens to be a proper name and is
therefore capitalised).  The unit name (degrees) is still lowercase.
