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How is "kilometer" pronounced?
Topic Started: Mar 14 2010, 05:09 PM (454 Views)
Klaus
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ivorythumper
Mar 15 2010, 09:41 AM
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.
Unless you'd stop aligning days with the rotation of the earth around itself and years with the rotation of the earth around the sun, there is no way how a 10 day week, 10 weeks a month, and a 10 month year would add up to the duration of one earth-around-sun rotation, so I wonder who here has the IQ of a hamster :tongue:
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CHAS
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Hear it yourself

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/kilometer

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sue
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Big John
Mar 15 2010, 12:39 PM
In western canada they say KILO meter, CIGArette, caPILLary, and CEment.


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blondie
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I pronounce it like this: kill - law - mitt - ter .

At my age I still think in miles.
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