(The British and the French, for instance, don't do it the same way at all...)
Not very British. Axillary or buccal, more like it.
Then there are the things you can stick on the forehead, but I heard they were imprecise. And isn't there an auricular thermometer?
Ah. In Hungary and I believe most of Germany too, only for children.
And isn't there an auricular thermometer?
I also learnt from Wiki that measurements in the ear are supposed to be the most precise, because temperature swings have an effect there first. (I haven't seen an ear thermometer myself, though -- and I just bought one as present for Christmas.) *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
But they use them in hospitals here now. It's quick, and the disposable shield saves having to send off the instrument for sterilisation. And it's ten years on-the technology might be better.
Or, people do not take their own temperature, and always go to the doctor for such a simple thing? *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
