• Swordgeek@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    That’s kilometre.

    Ironivally, the only country that officially uses kilometer is…the US.

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      5 months ago

      Here in Germany, it’s also called “kilometer”, albeit in our German bastardization of Ancient Greek.

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      5 months ago

      only country that officially uses kilometer is…the US

      Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden all use Meter

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      5 months ago

      Try kilometr in polish. What, don’t like consonants so close together?

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        5 months ago

        Strč prst skrz krk.

        One of my life’s greatest achievements was convincing a guy from Brazil that the sentence above is not ridiculously stupid.

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      5 months ago

      nah a lot of people around the world use US spelling because it is more accessible and generally makes more sense than french