[Edward Teach]

I’d be happy if everyone learned to pronounce kilometers correctly. It’s kilo-meters, NOT kil-O-meters. Meter, centimeter, millimeter, kilogram, kil-O-meter...wait what? How do you get that?

[Olog-hai]

I’d like to hear “centimeter” pronounced with the accent on the second syllable, like we do with “kilometer”.

[skepsel]

In the Army it is, or was, pronounced "klicks". 😁

[pepsi_junkie]

I was in first grade in 1976 when the government decided the USA had to go metric and started forcing it into the school curriculum. A big part of the problem is that many teachers, and I dare say most first grade teachers, are not STEM oriented at all. My teacher had no idea what a kilometer was and she was asking us to guess how far a km was. We threw out all sorts of guesses based on our limited first grader world experience and she kept saying "no, much much farther". I remember vividly one location I had suggested because we had recently moved a block away from it and she said "oh no, a km is much much farther than that". According to google, that spot is actually exactly 1.5km from the school.

No wonder it failed here.