klick

[Victoria Neufeldt]

I hear and see this used in Canada especially for 'kilometres per
hour'.  Very useful, since the phrase is something of a mouthful.  I
don't recall seeing it spelled with a 'c'.

Victoria

Victoria Neufeldt
727 9th Street East
Saskatoon, Sask.
S7H 0M6
Canada
Tel: 306-955-8910




> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society
> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf
> Of Harrold Wilson Gray
> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 7:15 AM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: klick
>
>
> "Klick"/"click" was the usual term used in the U.S. Army
> Europe when I
> was in it in the late '50's and early '60's. My feeling  is
> that it was
> already Army-wide way before 'Nam as a  consequence of the American
> occupation of countries that ordinarily measured distances in
> kilometers. But, of course, it takes somebody to write it
> down for it
> to count.
>
> -Wilson Gray
>
> On Sep 7, 2005, at 3:17 AM, Dave Wilton wrote:
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> > Poster:       Dave Wilton <dave at WILTON.NET>
> > Subject:      Re: klick
> >
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> >
> > Quoting "Mullins, Bill" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL>:
> >
> >> klick [kilometer] OED has 1967.
> >>
> >> "New Slang Evolves in Viet Nam War", Hal Boyle (AP),
> Dallas Morning
> >> News,
> >> June 12 1965 sec A p. 12
> >> "But no one calls a kilometer a kilometer.  It's a "click". "
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Robin Moore's "The Green Berets" uses "click" a lot. I
> believe that
> > was a 1965
> > book--maybe 1964.
> >
> > --
> > Dave Wilton
> > dave at wilton.net
> > http://www.wilton.net/dave.htm
> >