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-as of [9 APRIL 2024]–
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-the kilo-meter is a ‘unit of length’ in the ‘metric system’ equal to ‘1000 meters’-
(‘kilo- being the ‘SI prefix’ for ‘1000′)
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‘SI symbol’ –> km
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/ˈkɪləmiːtər/
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/kɪˈlɒmɪtər/
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*KILOMETER*
(‘american spelling’)
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“KILOMETRE”
(the dumb british spelling)
(which unfortunately is also the ‘international spelling’ as used by the *’international bureau’ of ‘weights’ + ‘measures’*)
(why not ‘ER’!?!?)
(remember kids, the british didn’t “invent” english so much as spoke an ‘evolved’ version of the ‘proto-indo-european’ language)
(and ‘american engish’ is a further ‘evolutionary’ branch that corrects for ‘mistakes’ such as spelling ‘meter’ instead of ‘metre’)
(if we want to standard ‘units’, why don’t we first start standardizing both the ‘written’ + ‘spoken’ words)
(this may be why brits don’t pronounce their “R’s” properly)
(because ‘er’ is the most ‘phonetically aligned’)
(‘center’ > ‘centra’ > ‘centre’)
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(‘k’ (pronounced /keɪ/) is occasionally used in some ‘english-speaking countries’ as an alternative for the word ‘kilometre’ in colloquial ‘writing’ + ‘speech’)
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(a slang term for the ‘kilometre’ in the ‘US military’ is “klick”)
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(it is now the ‘measurement unit’ used officially for expressing ‘distances’ between ‘geographical places’ on ‘land’ in most of the ‘world’)
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(notable exceptions are the ‘united states’ + the ‘road network’ of the ‘united kingdom’ (where the ‘statute mile’ is the ‘official unit’ used))
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥