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I've had the exact same thoughts about "kilometer" being more difficult to say in English than "mile", and I've heard the term "click" being used for 1km. I'm

• defrost 4y ago
  As an Australian who's used metric in everyday life, construction, signal aquisition, cooking, etc since ~ 1970 Building work is all millimeters - no decimal points and it scales well for fifteen foot (hah!) long wall units with shelves and doors down to the thickness of a saw cut. 3200mm is 3.2 metres (close to 10 and half feet) and gets thrown about in a work shop as "thirty two hundred". Working in mm ( mills ) in building and workshops is a single unit solution with no decimal points and no confusion when chalking numbers on a wall or bit of sheetrock | paper | wood, etc - it's all mills. As for the kilometre, that's pretty formal, mostly it's just 'K' as in "it's about 20 Kay down the road". "clicks" gets used .. but we're lazy and K is shorter still.
• lokedhs 4y ago
  In Sweden, I've pronounced it "dess", which works really well.