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| How is "kilometer" pronounced? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 14 2010, 05:09 PM (455 Views) | |
| George K | Mar 14 2010, 05:09 PM Post #1 |
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Finally
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Saw someone pronounce this word on TV a while ago.... |
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| jon-nyc | Mar 14 2010, 05:12 PM Post #2 |
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Cheers
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Kil-AH-meter. KEE-logram. Such are my pronunciations, but either choice is valid. |
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| jodi | Mar 14 2010, 05:15 PM Post #3 |
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Fulla-Carp
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KILL a gram![]() |
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| jon-nyc | Mar 14 2010, 05:17 PM Post #4 |
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Cheers
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Some notes from Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilometre#Pronunciation |
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| Aqua Letifer | Mar 14 2010, 05:17 PM Post #5 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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"kill-AHM-eter" "KI-LO-gram" Yeah I know I'm weird. |
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| Riley | Mar 14 2010, 05:22 PM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Yup. |
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| George K | Mar 14 2010, 05:22 PM Post #7 |
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Finally
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Thanks, Jon. Interesting link. However, I found the analogy offered by wiki as to the rationale for accenting the 2nd syllable to be inaccurate:
Those items (with the accent on the 2nd syllable) are different from units of measure (kilogram, centimeter, etc) which all have the accent on the 1st syllable. They are legitimate prefixes which define the measure, whereas the others are adjectives which define the object, whatever it might be. And I don't care what the erstwhile prime minister of Australia said. He's Australian, you know (cue Henry Higgins). There's a common pronunciation of centimeter in medical usage which is "SANTimeter." I never understood that either. |
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| sue | Mar 14 2010, 05:46 PM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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That's like so French, eh. |
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| LWpianistin | Mar 14 2010, 05:55 PM Post #9 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Same here, depending on which side of the pond I'm on at the time. |
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| ivorythumper | Mar 14 2010, 06:59 PM Post #10 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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klik. |
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| NAK | Mar 14 2010, 07:06 PM Post #11 |
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Senior Carp
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*Points* About 10 minutes that way. |
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| musicasacra | Mar 14 2010, 08:09 PM Post #12 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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That's how I pronounce them too. I probably picked up KEE-logram from the abbreviation kilo (KEE-lo). |
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| Klaus | Mar 14 2010, 10:35 PM Post #13 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I am glad that this discussion came up. Metric system FTW!! |
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| Horace | Mar 14 2010, 10:48 PM Post #14 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I don't even know what a kilogram is, but if I wanted to measure something, and I was a communist, then I'm sure that's what I would use. |
| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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| Klaus | Mar 14 2010, 11:08 PM Post #15 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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On the other hand, your insistence on the English unit system can easily cost $125M. I mean, who wants to calculate with these awkward relationships between, say, inches, feet, yard, and miles? We have the decimal system, after all. If you really want to use these awkward units, you should use a different number system, too, where conversion between these units is simpler. So, by using the decimal system you have already adopted the core of the metric system, whether you want it or not
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| Trifonov Fleisher Klaus Sokolov Zimmerman | |
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| Horace | Mar 14 2010, 11:26 PM Post #16 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Ah, but the beauty of our system is that no mere number system can pigeon hole us. Want to know how to convert between one unit and another? Think you can, just by counting our fingers? THINK AGAIN, ALIEN SPECIES WHO WOULD DESTROY US IF THEY HAD THAT ALL-IMPORTANT KNOWLEDGE. We're mysterious, and therefore we're dangerous. |
| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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| brenda | Mar 14 2010, 11:30 PM Post #17 |
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Yep, it keeps the riff-raff out.
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| Radu | Mar 15 2010, 12:30 AM Post #18 |
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Senior Carp
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I'm curious... what does this word mean and why they used it in your TV ? |
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| sue | Mar 15 2010, 09:26 AM Post #19 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I use both pronunciations. kil-AHM-eter, as in "I was going 40 kilometers per hour and the stupid cop pulled me over and gave me a warning" (although we usually just say "clicks"), but if discussing it with centimeters or millimeters, I switch to KIL-ah-meter to be consistent. I suspect it's because using the accent on the second syllable makes the word easier to say; it flows better in a sentence. |
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| ivorythumper | Mar 15 2010, 09:41 AM Post #20 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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$125M is a pfiffle. The adoption of a decimal system in Europe, and the abandoning of complex systems, during the Enlightenment has hurt you more than helped you. The mind is naturally capable of much more complicated rational thought than the metric system allows, and so in some regard the rest of the world has mentally atrophied. The technological and economic advancement and dominance of the US in the past 200 years has not been hampered by retaining the English system, but has actually been facilitated by it. You Europeans can think mostly in just denary systems. I would guess that if the Enlightenment thinkers had been successful in implementing a 10 month year, a 10 week month, a 10 day week, a 10 hour day, a 10 minute hour, and a 10 second minute -- you would all have the collective IQ of a hamster. Be thankful that you can still operate in more complex systems relevant to time.
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| OperaTenor | Mar 15 2010, 09:51 AM Post #21 |
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Pisa-Carp
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It's pronounced, "mile."![]() |
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| kenny | Mar 15 2010, 10:27 AM Post #22 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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It is pronounced more than one way. Besides, pronunciations are just made up and agreed with. Are you asking which pronunciation has the largest agreement? If so, where? Pronunciation agreements vary with location. |
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| Luke's Dad | Mar 15 2010, 10:30 AM Post #23 |
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Emperor Pengin
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Mine too. |
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| Klaus | Mar 15 2010, 12:36 PM Post #24 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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OK, I am convinced
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| Big John | Mar 15 2010, 12:39 PM Post #25 |
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Senior Carp
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In western canada they say KILO meter, CIGArette, caPILLary, and CEment. Oh wait, they say CEment in Texas. |
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