How do you pronounce ''kilometer''?

Personally, I think if you are going to be talking about deTAIL, a few words should be spent on de HEAD, as well.

Just kidding. These are all matters of individual preference and of what you are used to hearing.

"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. "

Ireland already has kilometres, so Britain has, too? Since when do the British follow what the Irish do? I thought it was the other way round.

"Any retailer still solely selling in imperial measures will be prosecuted."

That's because the EUSSR is hugely undemocratic, and is why we must leave. Jeez, beer in pints rather than litres and go to jail? It's like a bloody dictatorship. These laws come from the same people who gave the world Naziism, Socialism, Fascism and Communism. Send a guy to jail for murder - but sending a guy to jail for selling food in pounds and ounces, like we have done in Britain for hundreds of years before the meddling Europeans poked their noses in?

Britain out of the EU NOW and stick to using imperial. Imperial measurements are what NASA uses to put men on the Moon and send probes to Pluto.

Metric measurements are what Napoleon used when he was overrunning Continental Europe.

I've never seen the spelling "kilometre" used even in American science texts. It's just never used here in the United States.

The "EUSSR"?

I find that the minute people come up with silly labels for people or institutions, they stop actually engaging their brains on the subject. The equivalent of a strawman.

EUSSR? European union of Socialist Soviet republics. The EU is no difference from those idiots like Stalin.

Simply wouldn't standardization of our measuring systems be better? One all for all? I'm not saying it would be easy as changing underwear but it would be surely a slow phase of the old in with the new.

I suppose it was inevitable that the Irish would asopt the Euro currency and bow to their European masters.

After all, they they are the people who supported the Nazis during World War II -


Irish leaders sent condolences for Hitler


Ireland's president during World War II offered condolences to Nazi Germany's representative in Dublin over the death of Adolf Hitler, newly declassified government records show.

Until now, historians had believed that Ireland's prime minister at the time, Eamon de Valera, was the only government leader to convey official condolences to Eduard Hempel, director of the German diplomatic corps in Ireland. De Valera's gesture unique among leaders of neutral nations in the final weeks of World War II was criticized worldwide.

The presidential protocol record for 1938-1957, made public this week within a trove of previously secret government documents, shed new light on one of the most embarrassing chapters in the history of independent Ireland its decision to maintain cordial relations with the Nazis even after news of the Holocaust emerged.

The new document confirmed that President Douglas Hyde visited Hempel on May 3, 1945, a day after Ireland received reports of Hitler's death.

The newly released document says Hyde who served as Ireland's symbolic head of state from 1938 to 1945 and died in 1949 visited Hempel at the diplomat's home in Dun Laoghaire, a Dublin suburb. It says the president did not send an official letter of condolence to German government headquarters because "the capital of Germany, Berlin, was under siege and no successor had been appointed."

The Republic of Ireland, then called Eire, remained neutral throughout World War II, which in local parlance was called "The Emergency."

Tens of thousands of Irishmen volunteered to serve in British military units, but many others rooted for Germany against their old imperial master Britain. The outlawed Irish Republican Army built contacts with the Nazis in an ultimately fruitless effort to receive weapons and money for insurrection in neighboring Northern Ireland, a British territory.

De Valera's government brutally suppressed the IRA but also rebuffed requests to allow Jews fleeing Nazi persecution to receive asylum in Ireland. De Valera also refused to allow Britain or the United States to use strategic Irish ports for protecting Atlantic convoys from attacks by German U-boat submarines, a policy that cost thousands of Allied seamen's lives.


abcnews.go.com . . .


Also, during World War I, when the whole of Ireland was part of Britain, the Irish tried to get the Germans to invade Ireland in the hope that they would then get their independence from Britain, even though they would then be ruled by the Germans.

Americans need to remember all this the next time they are about to romaticise the Irish.