Dennis Brownridge wrote:
> and U.S. dictionaries, while they
> give both pronunciations, list the American one first.
I don't know which ones you are using, but Webster's New Universal
Unabridged and the American Heritage Dictionary both put KILometer first. My
1962 Funk and Wagnall's Britannica World Language Dictionary also puts the
correct pronunciation first.
The Illustrated Oxford Dictionary, on the other hand, gives the wrong
pronunciation first.
To its enormous discredit, the Oxford American Dictionary gives only
kilOMeter.
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
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