"Half a pound of salami, please."

[bachophile]

Hey you are right, I didn’t know that.

[Copper]

In New England we used to be able to buy beer in a GIQ, Giant Imperial Quart. It was imported from Canada, I’m not sure if you can still buy a GIQ.

[LuFins Dad]

@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":

@bachophile said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":

Although I still think when I order a pint of beer, I should be ordering half a liter, because you get more beer that way.

Go to England, you get more!

More bad beer…

[George K]

I remember getting better MPG when I drove in Canada.

[Mik]

I can do much of it in my head going back and forth....weight, distance, milliliters. But when it comes to smaller measurements, I don't have that conversion logic upstairs yet because I haven't really had to use it. It's not that hard and it makes more sense to use base 10.

[LuFins Dad]

Fine, just so long as we base the length of a centimeter as the size of Rudolf VanWerdenstein’s knuckle on his middle finger. And a gram should be the measured weight of a single lock of a Hapsburg princess’s hair.

[LuFins Dad]

And a liter should be set at the exact amount of Bohemian Pilsner with an ABV of 5.2% it takes for me to drink in an hour to reach a blood alcohol level of .06.

I’m willing to sit through multiple tests…

[George K]

As long as we're talking metric...

When we say centimeter, we pronounce it CENtimeter.
When we say kilogram, we pronounce it KILogram.
When we say millimeter, we pronounce it MILlimeter.

But when it comes to distance, we most people say kilOmeter.

[Mik]

Ah yes, there is that little discrepancy.

[Doctor Phibes]

@LuFins-Dad said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":

@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":

@bachophile said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":

Although I still think when I order a pint of beer, I should be ordering half a liter, because you get more beer that way.

Go to England, you get more!

More bad beer…

I shouldn't worry - they'd probably be willing to serve it to you in a lady's glass.

In fact, they might insist.

[George K]

@Mik said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":

Ah yes, there is that little discrepancy.

I always say KILometer. Just to be obnoxious - and right.

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":

@Mik said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":

Ah yes, there is that little discrepancy.

I always say KILometer. Just to be obnoxious - and right.

Don't most Americans pronounce it kil-ah-meeder?

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":

Don't most Americans pronounce it kil-ah-meeder?

Yes. How do the Brits pronounce it?

What about other countries?

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":

@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":

Don't most Americans pronounce it kil-ah-meeder?

Yes. How do the Brits pronounce it?

Either way, but we do enunciate the 't' correctly.

Link to video

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":

Either way, but we do enunciate the 't' correctly.

But you don't pronounce the "r".

KIL oh metah.

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":

@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":

Either way, but we do enunciate the 't' correctly.

But you don't pronounce the "r".

KIL oh metah.

I think the 'r' is in there - then again, I've lived in New England for 20 years, so I might here r's where none exist

[Aqua Letifer]

@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":

@George-K said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":

@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":

Either way, but we do enunciate the 't' correctly.

But you don't pronounce the "r".

KIL oh metah.

I think the 'r' is in there - then again, I've lived in New England for 20 years, so I might here r's where none exist

It's not. British English is primarily non-rhotic. The New England accent, while more rhotic than British English, is still one of the least rhotic accents in America.

So relative to you it's rhotic, sure. Universally speaking, it ain't.

[jon-nyc]

@George-K said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":

Interestingly, in medicine, everything is metric - other than weight. Patient weight, that is.

That may have changed in the last few years, however. I'm out of that loop.

When they weigh me at Duke or Columbia it’s in kilograms. They have a conversion chart on the wall for patient convenience.

[bachophile]

@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":

@George-K said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":

@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":

Don't most Americans pronounce it kil-ah-meeder?

Yes. How do the Brits pronounce it?

Either way, but we do enunciate the 't' correctly.

Link to video

Yea but the way the spell it, it should be ki-LAH-me-trey

[George K]

@bachophile said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":

should be ki-LAH-me-trey

They probably run IVs at 125 MIL-i-lee-trays per hour too.