For years in my mind I’ve pronounced it kill-o-meter, but I heard that the proper pronounciation was kil-om-eter. Recently though I’ve seen two different programs were they pronounced it kill-o-meter. What’s the correct way to pronounce it?
Buy the new Freddy Kruger Kill-o-meter ™. It’ll hellp you keep track of how many people you kill!
Klick?
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For years in my mind I’ve pronounced it kill-o-meter, but I heard that the proper pronounciation was kil-om-eter. Recently though I’ve seen two different programs were they pronounced it kill-o-meter. What’s the correct way to pronounce it?
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Both pronunciations are correct.
I usually pronouce it kih-LAW-meh-ter, as per the OP’s second pronounciation.
However, that’s a bad habit. The original, correct and consistent pronounciation is “KILL-oh-meet-er,” consistent with the manner in which all other like metric units of measurement are pronounced - CENT-ih-meet-er, MILL-ill-ee-ter, and so on. I try to remind myself to say “KILL-oh-meet-er” but I’m frequently guilty of the wrong pronounciation.
I also keep pronouncing “during” as if it starts with a J, another nasty Canadian habit.
Hmm, I say KEE-loh-meter, well it’s ambiguous where I place the l sound (well really keelo in general when referring to kilo-) Is that just a difference in accent or am I way off here?
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I also keep pronouncing “during” as if it starts with a J, another nasty Canadian habit.
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Huh? You say “juring” rather than “during”? Really? I don’t know anyone who does that.
To the OP, I might say pronounce either way, though I do agree with **RickJay’s ** logic on pronouncing kill-o-metre.
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Huh? You say “juring” rather than “during”? Really? I don’t know anyone who does that.
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I say that too. The first syllable of ‘during’ sounds like that of ‘jury’. It’s the d +yu (palatilised ‘u’) sound smushed together. Ironically, Canadian English has tended to lose the palatilised ‘u’ sound in words like ‘tune’ and the pronuncuation of ‘during’ is a but of an anomaly.
I say ‘KILL-oh-meedur’. 
We used to say ‘kil-OMM-ih-durr’ but it was drilled into us at school that the prefix in kilometre was to be pronounced the same way as that in kilolitre, kilowatt, etc.
[QUOTE=Sunspace]
I say that too. The first syllable of ‘during’ sounds like that of ‘jury’. It’s the d +yu (palatilised ‘u’) sound smushed together. Ironically, Canadian English has tended to lose the palatilised ‘u’ sound in words like ‘tune’ and the pronuncuation of ‘during’ is a but of an anomaly.
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You Ontarians are weird. That is all.
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I also keep pronouncing “during” as if it starts with a J, another nasty Canadian habit.
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How else would you pronounce it? Dur-ring?
Oh. Yeah, I guess that does work. :smack:
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I usually pronouce it kih-LAW-meh-ter, as per the OP’s second pronounciation.
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Me, too, ever since I started hanging around Brits and Aussies. Seems to be their pronunciation.
Standard American pronunciation is kill-OM-eter or maybe kill-AH-meter, with the first “e” in meter being short, or even schwa.
[QUOTE=PastAllReason]
You Ontarians are weird. That is all.
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And yet the Americans keep hiring Ontarians as news broadcasters.
Go figure.
“Half Mile” 
One more for RickJay’s pronunciations.
I never noticed ‘juring’ until now but I definitely do it.
[QUOTE=Raguleader]
“Half Mile” 
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“0.62 mile”
I pronounce it “Kil-lah-mehder” This is probably very, very wrong.
[QUOTE=Siam Sam]
“0.62 mile”
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As we jokingly say in our Chinese class: 都可以
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I pronounce it “Kil-lah-mehder” This is probably very, very wrong.
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I see you live in Milwaukee, that’s near a rather dense area of German and Dutch people isn’t it? At least Sheboygan which isn’t far from there where I lived as a kid had a huge Dutch population. That could explain it because saying it in my head it sounds a lot like that sort of accent.
Oddly, in the Thousand Islands area the American side says “kih-LAWM-ih-tur” while the Canadian side prefers “KILL-o-mee-tur”
[QUOTE=furryman]
For years in my mind I’ve pronounced it kill-o-meter, but I heard that the proper pronounciation was kil-om-eter. Recently though I’ve seen two different programs were they pronounced it kill-o-meter. What’s the correct way to pronounce it?
Buy the new Freddy Kruger Kill-o-meter ™. It’ll hellp you keep track of how many people you kill!
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…depends entirely on where you are from.
I’m from the US, I pronounce it KEEL-ohm-it-tor