It's interesting to note that Merriam-Webster Online (http://www.m-w.com/home.htm) doesn't seem to distinguish the pronunciation of tonne from ton. I realize that the website is hosted by an American company, but both words are pronounced as "done".
Sorry to hear that Australian youngsters have succumbed to American pop-culture cool just as young people everywhere have. But there are so many unique aspects to Australia I would be very surprised if this homogenization didn't take a very long time - i.e. decades.
Mike Joy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Joseph Reid asked:-
| Will Mike Joy please tell us if Australia used American (short) tons
| of 2000 lbs. or British (long) toms of 2240 lbs. and hundredweights
| (cwt.) of 112 lbs.?
It's a metric tonne here, and has been for over 2 decades now.
As Bill says it's pronounced as in 'don'. 'Tun' is only used as a general
term where accuracy doesn't matter e.g. "That must weigh 10 tons or more".
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Krishna Kambhampaty
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