Qualification - Cornish and lived there for 23 years before moving to the lucky country. I recently traced my ancestry back to the 1700's in the same village I grew up in, most of the men were tin miners.
Metric has prefixes - kilo, milli, centi, deci, deca.
Yes, kilo-meter. No pause though...kilometer
KILOM-eter is not correct.
Would you ask for a KILOG-ram of chicken?
The point here is that almost all English words ending in “ometer” have the stress on the “OM” (maybe we are all closet yogis): speedOMeter, hygrOMeter, thermOMeter, tacHOMeter etc, etc, so kilometre follows the same pattern (even if it ends in -re rather than -er. It’s the pronunciation that counts here)
Pet hates:
1. Ordering food in a restaurant and the waiter says “Not a problem” . I bloody well hope it’s not a problem.
2. People posting pics titled rho Ophiuchus, eta Carina, omega Centaurus etc. if you don’t know why this bugs me you are probably one of the guilty ones.
3. Cars in the outside lane overtaking with a speed differential of 1km/hr
Just a miner (oops) thing - but weren’t they tin mines in Cornwall?
I actually didn’t plan to differentiate the type of mine in my post because I wasn’t sure. Alas in a fit of feverish typing I still wrote coal. Oops. I stand corrected gentlemen.
Pet hates:
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2. People posting pics titled rho Ophiuchus, eta Carina, omega Centaurus etc. if you don’t know why this bugs me you are probably one of the guilty ones.
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Hi G,
Is it that you'd like to see the relevant Greek letter used, have the catalogue number included, spelling, capitalisation, Star/system v Constellation naming or ........ ?
Is it that you'd like to see the relevant Greek letter used, have the catalogue number included, spelling, capitalisation
In my personal records of what I do manage to see, from my patio, here in badly light polluted Brisbane, I do record all that.
English word translations of the Greek letters don't get a look in, unless such words are part of the actual name of the star.
Is it that you'd like to see the relevant Greek letter used, have the catalogue number included, spelling, capitalisation, Star/system v Constellation naming or ........ ?
Best
JA
Hi JA. To answer your question just Google omega Centaurus and see what comes up.
Cheers
Geoff
2. People posting pics titled rho Ophiuchus, eta Carina, omega Centaurus etc. if you don’t know why this bugs me you are probably one of the guilty ones.
Guilty as charged. I see your point. Never paid much attention but will now.
The point here is that almost all English words ending in “ometer” have the stress on the “OM” (maybe we are all closet yogis): speedOMeter, hygrOMeter, thermOMeter, tacHOMeter etc, etc, so kilometre follows the same pattern (even if it ends in -re rather than -er. It’s the pronunciation that counts here)
I had both a Physics professor and Organic Chem professor pronounce it as thermo-meter (like thermo-couple etc) . The difference comes in for unit of measure (kilometer, centimeter etc) vs a measuring device. (I do use the French spelling for kilometer and such but can’t be bothered correcting autocorrect). The French pronounce it kilo-meter also, and they inventing the units Maybe not Marc, but hey, it’s Marc.
I guess horses for courses. Every single pilot I ever trained or met that called an altimeter an “Altim-eter” got an eyebrow curl ( or one that called it a “plane” got a WTFAYAC - although I have never met an aviator worth his salt that called it a plane)
Things change mainly due to popular usage. For me it matters not how one pronounces anything if the idea is successfully communicated.
I wonder how folk from say five hundred years ago would react...
Once I was very correct because of my work and I guess the exposure to the pedantic preoccupation with the sort of trivial matters folk here say annoys them finally got to me...so I'm gonna say who gives a rat's...When I was young it was so much about how you pronounced the letter "H" ... so trivial.
And you could not say "got" and no doubt there are still folk who burr up when you say got or pronounce "H" the other way...And use this to somehow kid themselves they they are somehow better...sad..small minded in a small world.
Well I just found something that annoys me..I like cage fighting so I was watching some tonight..And as to something so annoying... you get so many professional fighters who throw a power punch and miss by 6 inches and the opponent did not move his head out of the way...heck that's like a soldier not being able to hit a stationary target... they must need glasses...
Did you mean to write 1,000,000 years ago? Humans have been using language for at least 200,000 years, some think maybe as long as 400,000 years.
Meh, Col still goes "Ugh ugh ughugh ugg ugguggg"
By using Col's timeline, it means that the Bible should read as Ugh ugh ugh ugg uggag....seeing the book is purported to be 2000+ years old. So, therein, supposedly old JC should be a caveman by Col's timeline
