"Half a pound of salami, please."

[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.

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[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.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Aqua-Letifer said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":

British English is primarily non-rhotic.

A Scotsman would not agree. Neither would people from the South West of England - Cornwall, Somerset etc or for that matter Liverpool.

[Aqua Letifer]

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

@Aqua-Letifer said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":

British English is primarily non-rhotic.

A Scotsman would not agree. Neither would people from the South West of England - Cornwall, Somerset etc or for that matter Liverpool.

Primarily. So, they'd be wrong.