How do you pronounce Micrometer?

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**Gwar!**

I pronounce it My-crom-it-er, but I am a silly posh gakker!
I've heard others say it as My-crow-me-ter.

How do ya'll say it?

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

You are correct. My-crom-it-er is appropriate.

**Da Boss**

Mi-crom-it-er.

**Fallen668**

My-crow-me-ter

**legoburner**

How can you pronounce it like that?

My-crow-me-ter is the way for me... meter is the base measurement and micro/nano/pico the amount so that seems the logical way. It is just as wrong as saying klom-it-er instead of key-lo-meat-er - an affront to science

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**Kilkrazy**

As you are British you mean the screw gauge not the metric measurement.

Therefore; "my crom it er".

This is confirmed by Collins Concise English Dictionary 21st Century edition.

**Da Boss**

I'm also assuming screw gauge.

**Kilkrazy**

legoburner wrote:How can you pronounce it like that?
My-crow-me-ter is the way for me... meter is the base measurement and micro/nano/pico the amount so that seems the logical way. It is just as wrong as saying klom-it-er instead of key-lo-meat-er - an affront to science
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Metre is the measurement of length.

Perhaps it is Meter in the USA.

**Gwar!**

Hold on, you say "Kee-low-meet-er"? I pronounce it Kill-om-it-er.

**Sanctjud**

Tomayto, Tomahto?
Ultramarines, Ultrasmurfs? Wait no...

**Cane**

Antithesis....anti-thesis?

**Gwar!**

I say it ant-ith-eh-sis

**Sanctjud**

G-war!/Gw-ar!

**Black Blow Fly**

Everyone in the US pronounces kilometer as kil-om-iter. Our previous leader pronounced nuclear as nuke-ee-ur. Oh well.

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**Kilkrazy**

Nucular artillerary.

**youngblood**

Kilkrazy wrote:Nucular artillerary.

I think you meant nu-kwee-er

**Mad Monk's Mekshop**

My-CRO-meter

just some germans 2 cents!

**Platuan4th**

youngblood wrote:
Kilkrazy wrote:Nucular artillerary.

I think you meant nu-kwee-er

Would that sound like New Queer?

**J.Black**

The unit of length is pronounced my-crow-metre.

The device used to measure things via a screw gauge is pronounced my-crom-eter.

Automatically Appended Next Post:
oops, shoulda read Killkrazy's post :S

**H.B.M.C.**

Like I pronounce kilometer - kih-lohm-it-er.

My-crom-it-er.

An-tih-thih-sis.

Eh-pee-tome. Ok, I don't say epitome as "Eh-pee-tome". It's eh-pih-toe-me.

**avantgarde**

I pronounce microgram and kiloliter as:

my crog am

and

kih lawl iter

**BluntmanDC**

as a chemist its mi-cro-meter for the measurement unit, and mi-crom-eter for the instrument, i once witnessed a lecturer rip a hole in to a 2nd year student for not knowing the micrometer is 10 to the -6 of a meter.

**Albatross**

What about 'Iraq' or Iran'?

I say it 'I'rahk', not 'Ai-Rak'

same for 'Iran' - 'I'rahn', not 'Ai-ran'.