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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Klick?
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?
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.
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.
You Ontarians are weird. That is all.
How else would you pronounce it? Dur-ring?
Oh. Yeah, I guess that does work. :smack:
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.
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.
“0.62 mile”
I pronounce it “Kil-lah-mehder” This is probably very, very wrong.
As we jokingly say in our Chinese class: 都可以
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”
…depends entirely on where you are from.
I’m from the US, I pronounce it KEEL-ohm-it-tor