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   From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   on 7/29/2024, Steve Hayes supposed :   
   > On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 04:35:07 +0000, jerry.friedman99@gmail.com   
   > (jerryfriedman) wrote:   
   >   
   >> Hm.  You should hear my students on "calorimeter".  Maybe they   
   >> think it's more similar to "millimeter" than to "perimeter".  I admit   
   >> that a colleague of mine, not a native speaker of English, gets   
   >> some of the blame.   
   >   
   > And then there are the air crash investigation movies where they talk   
   > about "al-timmitters" rhyming with "transmitters" rather than   
   > "alti-meters" rhyming with "centimetres".   
      
   Actual pilots say "al-timmitters", too.  And I think I've heard it from   
   mountain climbers.   
      
   /dps   
      
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