The Other John wrote:
On Sun, 27 Apr 2014 16:07:13 +0100, critcher wrote:

wot abaht "sikth" instead of sixth

and 'fith' for fifth and 'Feb-you-erry' for February.

I'm surprised nobody mentioned 'kil-ommeters'!
Ugh!

In Australia the prime minister,Gough Whitlam, said we should pronounce
it Klometer.
Why should we do that with this word when none of the other variations
of metre don't.(or any other metric measurements)