Gene: I suspect this wrong pronunciation stems from an auditory analogy with "thermometer".
Not justified, of course ... just a plausible explanation. I can't think of another European language where the pronunciation would be similar. -- Ezra ----- Original Message ----- From: "eugene a mechtly" <[email protected]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Cc: "eugene a mechtly" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2014 10:19:48 AM 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
