I’m looking to test out a hypothesis I’ve formed on word usage. Would you be so kind as to post your nationality and “primary subsidiary political unit” (state, province, shire, etc.), and a phonetic respelling of how you say the word “Kilometer” (i.e., 0.624 miles)? Others who may have similar questions are welcome to hijack this thread to follow up on regional and transnational English usage, too. Thanks.
Ooh ooh! I’m first! Or maybe I’ve got nothing else to do at work than search the boards for stuff to respond to …
American, New Jersey, kill-AH-meh-ter.
Do I win? 
U.S., raised in New Jersey, lived in Massachusetts 25 years.
kill-AH-mih-ter
United States, Central Florida : Ki-LAH-mih-ter
Raised in Michigan, now live in Indiana.
“KIL-oh-mee-ter”. Don’t know how I stack up to the rest of the people around me - I’ll ask around.
OK, informal survey of eight people has us evenly divided:
Four say “KIL-oh-mee-ter” and four say “kuh-LAHM-ih-ter”. One of those four grew up in Southern Ontario, Canada, though.
US, live in Chicago (past 6 years), born and raised in New Jersey
I say ki-LAH-muh-ter But if I abbreviate it, it’s KEY-low
(My old linguistics teachers are crying over my transcriptions. I was going to use IPA but I don’t know if you know what that is.)
United States, East Tennessee
Kil-AHM-et-er
Grew up in Ohio,last 40 some years in California:
kil-AH-meter
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
kee - loh - may - ter
American, Illinois, ki-LAH-muh-ter
Republic of Texas
Ki-LAM-i-ter
Atlanta, Georgia USA “ki-LOM-eh-ter”
English, West Yorkshire
killaMEEter
Same here - spent my formative years in the greater metropolitan Baltimore area.
Born in Chicago.
Raised in LA until 13.
Then Washington DC.
I say ‘klicks’. No fooling. Picked it up from some pilots who worked for my dad when I was small.
Nationality: German
(currently living in the Netherlands)
Pronunciation: key - loh - MAY - ter
Grew up near Washington, D.C., and in English I would say:
ki - LAH - me - ter
Where do you guys get the “A” sound in kilOmeter? [kee-LAH-meeter] I’m curious.
Northern California
Kuh LAW muh ter
US, Connecticut
Kill-ohm-eh-ter
(usually I just use mile though)
Same location, same pronunciation.
Odd thing is, I would pronounce Kiloliter as KIL-oh-leet-er.