How you pronounce kilometer?

[Bounce]

I pronounce it "Throat Warbler Mangrove."

But you spell it "Luxury Yacht".

 

[SacramentoMike]

When our first son was born in 1978 the nurses at Vanderbilt's neonatal intensive care unit (long story ... you will be spared) were all talking about saunt eh meters.

I expect one of our nurses to come in on this. I've never heard it pronounced any other way in a hospital. Don't ask me why. Maybe they'll tell you.

To the OP: if you want to start something, ask a Canadian how to pronounce "decal."

 

[Fred W]

I am not a nurse, but am in the health care field. And you are right, it is widely pronounced as "saun-ti-meter" by people in that field. The origins are probably based on the French pronunciation of the word. But I think a lot of what keeps it going is that the medical students hear their professors pronounce it that way, so they adopt the pretense. Since I are a enjuneer in the field, I usually say 10 millimeters just to piss them off.

The first CFO I went to I was confused that they were calling the rally stickers "deckels." It took me quite a while to figure out they were trying to say decal (dee-cal).

 

[Bounce]

Probably influenced by the use of deciliter?

 

[user 6393]

Klick.

beat me to it haha

 

[RaYzerman19]

Klick.

beat me to it haha

Isn't it klick, eh!

 

[gapiob]

In France, we put the accent on the second syllable.

The old spelling of this word was "kilo-mètre", the international prefix for 1000, and the physical measurement.

But often, like all people in the word, we are lazy, and we just say : "kil"

 

[Bill Lumberg]

Kill. Ommm. Itter.

 

[harper]

There has been enough violence in the news lately. What's all this anti-electrical-engineering talk about killing ohm meters, now? Is that really necessary?

 

[Panotaker]

I have been fighting the metric system every inch of the way!

 

[wheatonFJR]

It depends where in Canada you are. I have had people up north swear to me that the way they said it was the correct way. Imagine that.

 

[user 6393]

It depends where in Canada you are. I have had people up north swear to me that the way they said it was the correct way. Imagine that.

Surely, you jest..........

 

[Bounce]

It depends where in Canada you are. I have had people up north swear to me that the way they said it was the correct way. Imagine that.

Surely, you jest..........

Absolutely not (and don't call me Shirley)