• Swordgeek@lemmy.ca
    88·
    6 months ago

    That’s kilometre.

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

    • Ephera@lemmy.ml
      11·
      6 months ago

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

    • geissi@feddit.deEnglish
      7·
      6 months ago

      only country that officially uses kilometer is…the US

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

    • magikmw@lemm.ee
      5·
      6 months ago

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

      • Klear@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 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.

    • pyre@lemmy.world
      22·
      6 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