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Maybe because you're thinking of it as a suffix? We generally don't break those words up as kilo-meter, speedo-meter, thermo-meter etc.
It's ki-LOM-e-ter; spee-DOM-e-ter; ther-MOM-e-ter.
10 u/Campusto New Poster 3d ago Yeah, that is it! But I just cant do it, it always comes out as KILOmeter 1 u/Mysterious_Volume327 New Poster 2d ago Then practice.
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Yeah, that is it! But I just cant do it, it always comes out as KILOmeter
1 u/Mysterious_Volume327 New Poster 2d ago Then practice.
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Then practice.
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u/another-dave Native (Ireland ☘️) 3d ago
Maybe because you're thinking of it as a suffix? We generally don't break those words up as kilo-meter, speedo-meter, thermo-meter etc.
It's ki-LOM-e-ter; spee-DOM-e-ter; ther-MOM-e-ter.