Timeline for How to pronounce "cm," "km," etc
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| Apr 27, 2019 at 20:57 | comment | added | Chris H | @BoldBen every drink/liquid food container in my kitchen under 1l is listed as ml, as are my water bottles. Engines are the only thing I commonly come across in CC - when they're under a litre, which is mainly motorbikes. | |
| Apr 27, 2019 at 20:57 | comment | added | BoldBen | @ChrisH In the seventies I wanted some timber but wasn't sure what units the shop was working in so I calculated my requirements in both metric and imperial. When I asked the shop what they worked in he told me everything was metric. I said I wanted some 100 by 75 and he said "How many feet do you want?" Things haven't improved much since! | |
| Apr 27, 2019 at 20:05 | comment | added | BoldBen | @ChrisH More commonly Millilitres? When was the last time you came across a 500ml motorbike? You get millilitres in medical and scientific contexts but just most food containers are sized in ccs | |
| Apr 27, 2019 at 15:46 | history | edited | Chris H | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 27, 2019 at 15:42 | comment | added | Chris H | I don't think (@PhilSweet) "kay" for KHz (or kc/s if you prefer) is common. "Meg" for MHz yes (and "Gig"). | |
| Apr 27, 2019 at 15:40 | comment | added | Chris H | I guess @RosieF is British too. | |
| Apr 27, 2019 at 15:40 | comment | added | Chris H | @PhilSweet very rarely in the UK in machining (because we machine in metric and use inches more for things like moving furniture or saying what size timber to buy). 1/1000" is a "thou" here, useful in things like "skim a few thou off" or when using very old lathes as I was trained on. Where mils are thousandths of inches is in electronics: PCB layer thicknesses/track widths etc. This is why drawings have standards and state the units. | |
| Apr 27, 2019 at 15:35 | comment | added | Chris H | @BoldBen 100 mil screws, 4 inch nails! CCs more commonly millilitres, which are sometimes called mils. | |
| Apr 27, 2019 at 15:06 | comment | added | Phil Sweet | oh, and a mil is 1/1000th of inch. | |
| Apr 27, 2019 at 15:01 | comment | added | Phil Sweet | If I cycle 40 kay, it's kilohertz ;) If I bike 40 clicks, it's kms. | |
| Apr 27, 2019 at 13:17 | comment | added | BoldBen | We don't use centimetres much though, do we? I believe it's much more common to hear "100 mil nails" than "10 centimetre nails". Maybe that's because I've worked in a steelworks where product dimentions were all expressed in millimeters. Having said that volumes are generally expressed in CCs or litres. | |
| Apr 27, 2019 at 7:03 | history | answered | Chris H | CC BY-SA 4.0 |