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    This thread is miles better than I expected!

    Quote Originally Posted by CDNSushi View Post
    KILometer = a distance of 1000 meters
    kiLOmeter = a (theoretical) device used to measure kilometers
    As a mileometer in my old car measured miles then the new fangled device for km surely should be a kilometerometer. The KilOmeter sounds like some gory battlefield device

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    Quote Originally Posted by Amoskeag View Post
    Here in the States we have no time for sensible measurement systems! None of this Mamby Pamby divide by ten and get a quick and simple answer stuff. . . .
    Actual entry to a "My Pop's Tops" contest, by a fifth grader: "My Pop's Tops not only on Fathers Day but on all the other 5,280 days of the year!"

    Quote Originally Posted by sathor View Post
    . . . No doing dangerous math going down the highway!
    Pvt: How do you convert klicks to miles?
    Sgt: Multiply klicks by 5 and divide by 8, then subtract 2.
    Pvt: Why subtract 2?
    Sgt: Because by the time I have multiplied by 5 and divided by 8 we've gone two miles. (At motor convoy speed: 20 mph.)

    Quote Originally Posted by CDNSushi View Post
    . . . Does that help?
    Not at all, but thanks for trying.

    Quote Originally Posted by Thunderbolt View Post
    . . . Metric is SO much easier than imperial. But the US has been doing things that way for a long time, and we're a stubborn lot! . . .
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    A large part of the silliness of this situation is that the USA is officially on the metric syatem. All other units are, by statute, defined in terms of metric units. But, to 99.44% of Americans, that is incredible news.

    Quote Originally Posted by meinfs View Post
    And a kilobyte is ...
    1000 bytes to a hardware engineer and 1024 bytes to a software engineer. What could be simpler?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ian.MacAllan View Post
    A large part of the silliness of this situation is that the USA is officially on the metric syatem. All other units are, by statute, defined in terms of metric units. But, to 99.44% of Americans, that is incredible news.
    Ian, I understood that although the metric system was legal in the USA, it wasn't the "official" system. I'd like to find out more, if you or anyone else knows for sure.

    Where I'm located, "kilometre" is pronounced both ways. I even pronounce it both ways myself!
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    Just remember
    6.2 kiltometers = a kilted mile
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    As the arch Ludite,we should have stuck to the Imprerial system! I still use yards,chains and furlongs as well as rods, poles and perches as measurements!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jock Scot View Post
    As the arch Ludite,we should have stuck to the Imprerial system! I still use yards,chains and furlongs as well as rods, poles and perches as measurements!
    The one I can't figure out is a "stone" weight.
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    Quote Originally Posted by davedove View Post
    Besides, anyone who has spent time in the military knows that neither pronunciation is correct. The proper term is "klick."
    Dave beat me to it.

    Quote Originally Posted by thanmuwa View Post
    Amen to that. 16 ounces in a pound and 14 pounds in a stone and however many stone in a tonne.... what a palaver!


    But it IS a kilo of something, it is a kilo of metres, same as a kilobyte is a kilo of bytes (almost!), a kiloHertz is a kilo of Hertz and a kilogram is a kilo of grams
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    Ahhh, but does that automatically make you a member of the #1 Gold Club?

    Quote Originally Posted by Barry View Post
    As a mileometer in my old car measured miles then the new fangled device for km surely should be a kilometerometer. The KilOmeter sounds like some gory battlefield device
    Perhaps for Dr. Doofenshmirtz it would be a kilometerometer -inator?
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    Quote Originally Posted by vmac3205 View Post
    The one I can't figure out is a "stone" weight.
    16 ounces(oz.) to the pound(lb.)--------14 pounds(lbs.) to the stone(st.).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jock Scot View Post
    As the arch Ludite,we should have stuck to the Imprerial system! I still use yards,chains and furlongs as well as rods, poles and perches as measurements!
    IIRC is a cricket pitch a chain long?

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    In American Conversational English, the vowels are somewhat interchangeable; it is a form of schwa. The Americans speak using the back of the throat much more than the English who tend to pronounce words more with the front of the mouth. That makes it easier to do this vowel swopping etc.
    Last edited by Bugbear; 6th January 09 at 12:27 PM.
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