(Anonymous) 2019-12-31 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
You don't need a britpicker for that. Familiarity with the metric system would be enough.

(Anonymous) 2019-12-31 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
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) 2019-12-31 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
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) 2019-12-31 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
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) 2019-12-31 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
Not in American English. Kilos is definitely only for kilograms.