Jon (Saxon), Use that nanosecond to restore the accent mark on your "French" entry. (You did include the accent marks on your Irish and Spanish entries.)
I agree, kilometer is *correctly* pronounced; prefix "kilo" plus base unit "meter" with emphasis on the *first* syllable. Not all Americans get that wrong. Following an observation by John Steele, you might change your heading "English" to "British Commonwealth" (BC), (since BC is a now being widely discarded as a religious code meaning *ancient* and is now available). The usage I find irksome and painful to endure is network grammar; "media is" while many of us know that it should be "medium is" and "media are." Gene. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:37:55 -0500 >From: Jon Saxton <[email protected]> >Subject: [USMA:49661] Re: how does spelling relate to metrication - ENOUGH! >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > >French: kilometre >English: kilometre >American: kilometer >Irish: ciliméadar >Spanish: kilómetro >... >do you know how many nanoseconds of sleep I >would lose over the American spelling if the US adopted the metric >system? Here is a clue. It is less than one. > >The only thing I would find irksome is the insistence that Americans >have on placing the emphasis on the second syllable. But I'll even >endure that over feet and miles and gallons. >
