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In my experience kilometre is pronounced “k”, centimetre is pronounced “ten mil”, and centilitre is “hundred mil”.
by gorgoiler 6y ago
In my experience kilometre is pronounced “k”, centimetre is pronounced “ten mil”, and centilitre is “hundred mil”.
- martyvis 6y agoYup, I'm an Aussie, born when inches and miles ruled and I live ninety two "k" from my office and I drink beer from three seventy "mil" stubbies (glass bottles). Not hard at all
- Steltek 6y agoIn more worldly/sciencey/engineering parts of the US, I tried shortening metric like that and then I ran into this fucking abomination of a measurement, which is also abbreviated to "mil" in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousandth_of_an_inch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousandth_of_an_inch I'm 100% American and I despise the imperial system so much. Maybe our plummeting stature in world politics and power will force us to convert. Not exactly the way I wanted it to go but a silver lining is still a silver lining.