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[(Anonymous)]

I wish people would get actual britpickers instead of guessing. Kilos is not short for kilometres!

[(Anonymous)]

omg. Context please??

[(Anonymous)]

“Claire!” she forced out. “We’re already out of Helsinki. If you have any regrets, you should’ve said it 40 kilos ago. But you didn’t. So calm down, okay? We’ll be fine.”


From a Fleabag fic.

[(Anonymous)]

cyrt

Lol! So who lost the 40 kilos? Claire or Fleabag? Or did they gain 40 kilos?

[(Anonymous)]

idk about Europe but ~20miles is more than a short enough distance enough to just turn around. This is kidnapping, free her!

[(Anonymous)]

Depends on how far you're planning on going, and at what speed. At 50 km/h, that'd be 4/5 of an hour in the car already. At 100 km/h, it would be just under half.

(This is why it makes more sense to measure distances in time for purposes like this.)

[(Anonymous)]

You don't need a britpicker for that. Familiarity with the metric system would be enough.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh. If kilograms can be kilos, it would make sense that kilometres can be kilos too. Do British people abbreviate kilometres to Ks like we do in Oz?

[(Anonymous)]

We very rarely use kilometres at all. If we were going to abbreviate, it would probably be to K, but seeing as we almost always use miles, we mostly say the whole word if we are saying kilometres. Definitely would not say kilos, that's very much a weight thing.

[(Anonymous)]

Same. I've heard my dad say clicks a couple of times in my lifetime but he's both an ex-army man and a sci-fi nerd and so is highly unreliable

[(Anonymous)]

Not in American English. Kilos is definitely only for kilograms.

[(Anonymous)]

...Why the fuck would you get a Britpicker for that? What?

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe they figure they'd pay more attention to a Britpicker vs. a more general beta, or that a non-British English beta might not realise kilos was wrong? Doesn't sound totally impossible to me - my beta made a valiant attempt to correct my grammar to American English without any apparent knowledge that that was what they were doing, after all.