I agree with you. However, the "accent on the lom" is the first listed pronunciation in my Webster's New World College Dictionary, with the proper pronunciation listed second.
(Brazilian) Portuguese is quilômetro, qui-lô-me-tro, with accent on 2nd syllable; I am not sure about Continental Portuguese. However, I prefer to rejoice if they didn't pronounce it "miles." ________________________________ From: "mechtly, eugene a" <mech...@illinois.edu> To: U.S. Metric Association <usma@colostate.edu> Cc: "mechtly, eugene a" <mech...@illinois.edu> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2014 1:19 PM Subject: [USMA:53563] No Accent on "lom" in kilometer! The CGPM does not publish an official "Guide for Pronouncing the Names and Multiples of SI Units." Nevertheless, I am confident that members of the CIPM (and CGPM) would reject an accent on the "lom" in the word kilometer. NBC commentators at the SUCHI Olympic events, *all* seem to have adopted this bad practice of accenting the "lom." Who initiated this *deviation* from the established global practice of enunciating both the prefix "kilo" and the stem "meter"? In spoken French and German there is no accented "lom" in kilometer! Is "lom" accented in any other languages which you might speak? Eugene Mechtly
