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| Thread ID: 128474 | 2012-12-22 04:37:00 | Another pet hate to get you going! | Richard (739) | PC World Chat |
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| 1319710 | 2012-12-22 05:59:00 | Maybe they're saying the American version? Time for you to correct wikipedia. There are two common pronunciations for the word: /ˈkɪlɵmiːtər/ KIL-o-mee-tər and /kɨˈlɒmɨtər/ ki-LOM-i-tər But...only one is correct. Then we have a micrOMeter...www.technologystudent.com and then also that tiny length a micro-metre, en.wikipedia.org However you would think that weather reporters would get the correct pronunciation, after all they could be said to be semi scientific and know what a kilo- is and what a metre is. Then again they talk of hot and cold temperatures, well temperature is just a scale and the numbers on that scale are neither hot nor cold. We know what they mean but that doesn't make it correct to talk of hot or cold temperatures. The long gone pedant Graham Lees would have known what I'm talking about :) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1319711 | 2012-12-22 06:05:00 | Terry, reading your post then mine then yours again, made me think, Is a word still the same word even tough it's spelt differently? | the_bogan (9949) | ||
| 1319712 | 2012-12-22 06:22:00 | Terry, reading your post then mine then yours again, made me think, Is a word still the same word even tough it's spelt differently? I'm not sure I follow you. Take the words meter/metre, depends on the language, French, German, American. The beauty of English English is that the difference in meaning between the same sounding words is clear. The Americans have a problem, the Germans and French don't as a different word is used for a meter meaning a measuring instrument. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1319713 | 2012-12-22 06:23:00 | I pronounce it kilo meter. My pet hate is the exaggerated pronunciation of maoris names. I pronounce maoris names like they have done for a hundred and fifty years phonetically. One day one of my kids pronounced muriwai differently so he got punished. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1319714 | 2012-12-22 06:26:00 | Absolutely correct Terry. Nobody says 'mill-im-eta' or 'cent-im-eta' do they. Do they?? | Richard (739) | ||
| 1319715 | 2012-12-22 06:28:00 | Absolutely correct Terry. Nobody says 'mill-im-eta' or 'cent-im-eta' do they. Do they?? Absolutely anything is possible these days .................................................. .......... |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1319716 | 2012-12-22 06:28:00 | Absolutely correct Terry. Nobody says 'mill-im-eta' or 'cent-im-eta' do they. Do they?? And nobody says "Kil-log-ram" |
decibel (11645) | ||
| 1319717 | 2012-12-22 06:40:00 | Why do people keep mispronouncing the word 'kilometre' by putting an 'om' in the middle of it. Try to remember this. It must be a no new nite on Press F1. I pronounce it that way so it must be correct.. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1319718 | 2012-12-22 06:42:00 | Oh-arm-a-roo :) | Zippity (58) | ||
| 1319719 | 2012-12-22 06:51:00 | Why do people keep mispronouncing the word 'kilometre' by putting an 'om' in the middle of it . The correct pronunciation is 'kill-o-meeta' . Try to remember this . Have you have been watching the sloppy news readers lately? This is what I think, remember if you can not beat them join the club go into the butcher and say "I would like 2 Kil-om-grams of lamb . " you might have to practice it a few times to get it to sound right similar to the distance measurement sounding . Then we can all join the "speaking prop-ly" club |
Frank_sumbody (16923) | ||
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