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You just gotta know how to talk to Euros
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That's kilometre.
Ironivally, the only country that officially uses kilometer is...the US.
Here in Germany, it's also called "kilometer", albeit in our German bastardization of Ancient Greek.
Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden all use Meter
Try kilometr in polish. What, don't like consonants so close together?
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.
nah a lot of people around the world use US spelling because it is more accessible and generally makes more sense than french