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    How long is a Canadian click?

    Question #96131. Asked by queproblema. (May 28 08 5:18 PM)


    BRY2K

    		In Canada we call a kilometer a "click" or "klick".

    One kilometer equals One kilometer is equivalent to 1,000 meters or 0.62 miles.

    http://themeaningofgrace.blogspot.com/2006/03/canadian-slang-for-dummies.html

    http://www.metric-conversions.org/length/miles-to-kilometers.htm


    May 28 08, 5:37 PM
    queproblema

    		Yay, Bry!

    This site confirms it's a Canadianism,
    http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~steffan/canadianisms.html

    but this one says it was coined by the US military in Vietnam....maybe.
    http://usmilitary.about.com/od/theorderlyroom/f/faqklickdef.htm

    Wiki says it may be a contraction of "kilometer," which is what I guessed when Canadian friends used the term. They thought it came from clicks of the odometer.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klick

    May 28 08, 6:35 PM

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