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it's a mulTIMeter, not a MULTImeter. You don't say SPEEDOmeter or ODOmeter. SpeeDOMeter. oDOMeter. Emphasis on the prefix is reserved for the unit, if that. NANOmeter. CENTImeter. KILOmeter a sometimes-exception for some reason. A while ago NPR had a guy on talking about how back when chinese food was new in the US, the mary tyler moore show was pronouncing it "chinese FOOD" insead of "chiNESE food." It was weird and interesting.
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Nobody says "no, yeah" do they?
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at least "yeah, no" can be like confirming a doubt or whatever
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ArbitraryC posted:flometer Yeah, FLOMMETer.  ra tehuti posted:what in the gently caress is a mulTIMeter? https://youtu.be/IdsB2xbcAcA
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Excape.Your Taint posted:For some odd reason, for the past few years my mom pronounces "thirsty" as "thirs-day" (almost like "thursday"). It drives me nuts. Maybe she's a Tech N9ne fan Wordplay rhymes with Thursday and thirsty, if I'm thirst-ay!
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I used to work with a guy for whom "one Hertz" was "one hert." it was embarrassing, especially if he'd do it talking to a customer.
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Hobologist posted:Yes and no. The word comes from the Greek word kuaneos. So in the Greek region he'd be right. But there's already a k in cmyk
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