To-day in the letters section of the Irish Times. http://www.ireland.com, click 'letters' in the left column, Han METRE AND MOUTH DISEASE Sir, - Can any of your readers offer an explanation as to why people who have no difficulty in pronouncing the words centimetre and millimetre produce the most extraordinary noises when wrestling with kilometre? In the meantime: Let the people who look to depositor/ As a guide to pronouncing kiloMETRE/ Get down on their knees/ And pray god that He sees/ That they never encounter kiloLITRE. - Yours, etc., DENIS O'DONOVAN, Rockboro' Road, Cork.
