How do you pronounce ''kilometer''?

I have kil-AH-mih-tur, DEE-tails, in-SHUR-rince, FIE-nance.
I usually say EE-thur and NEE-thur but occasionally i could use EYE-thur and NIE-thur.

Incidentally, kilometre is the official SI spelling in English, on both sides of the Atlantic, although this rule is not widely followed (at least not in the U.S.).

At least when anybody pronounces "mile" it can't be mucked up in any way. All we need to do on this side of the Pond is to get rid of the (BLEEP) mile once and for all and have kilometres on our road signs, however way it's pronounced (or spelt). Ireland already has. The mile is the last vestige of outdated imperial measures still remaining apart from the pint down the pub and they tried to literise (litreise? doesn't look right) that until all the old blokes propping up the bar protested.

Outside of unofficial general popular public use in everyday life (such as road distance measurements) the kilometre is used in practically all official dealings. All of commerce and science is metric and any imperial measures shown are invariably in brackets which is stupid and cumbersome and unnecessary in the 21st century. Any retailer still solely selling in imperial measures will be prosecuted.

Kilometre:The pronunciation could be keelomete with the stress on k and m

I prefer using miles myself. Much easier to pronounce.

<<Incidentally, kilometre is the official SI spelling in English, on both sides of the Atlantic, although this rule is not widely followed (at least not in the U.S.). >>

Yeah, SO "not followed" that I've NEVER seen it in the US, and that sounds like bull puckey to me....

I've never heard of 'kilometre' being used in the states, so I have to agree with Uriel on this one.

<<I've never heard of 'kilometre' being used in the states, so I have to agree with Uriel on this one.>>

Yeah, it's never used here. I don't know what Mxsmanic is talking about.

The key phrase is "kilometre is the official SI spelling in English". That's all Mxsmanic stated. SI being the regulatory body for unit standardization in the scientific community. Is that so hard to understand?

I've taken plenty of science courses in the US, and I work in a scientific field. I deal with metric all the time. But nowhere, not in any textbook or other written reference, have I seen the spelling "kilometre".

'metre' and 'meter' means different things for me though.

'Metre' is a distance measuring unit and 'meter' is a device used to measured gas or water.

>>The key phrase is "kilometre is the official SI spelling in English". That's all Mxsmanic stated. SI being the regulatory body for unit standardization in the scientific community. Is that so hard to understand?<<

The matter, though, is that the actual spelling used in the American English orthography is "kilometer" and most definitely *not* "kilometre", whatever SI may happen to say be damned. I have never seen "kilometre" *ever* used in an American English context myself, to say the least.

>>The matter, though, is that the actual spelling used in the American English orthography is "kilometer<<

And that was the crux of Mxsmanic's point... though.

>>and most definitely *not* "kilometre", whatever SI may happen to say be damned.<<

Well dayum! How evil of the international committees for devising the SI, in standardizing measures and their spellings. <g>

>>And that was the crux of Mxsmanic's point... though.<<

I know, looking back, but I just had forgotten to actually read Mxsmanic's post myself.

>>Well dayum! How evil of the international committees for devising the SI, in standardizing measures and their spellings. <g> <<

And how evil of them to make "aluminium" the "standard" spelling of the name of element 13 rather than "aluminum" too. ;)

deTAIL sounds much better than DEtail