Question 3: Kingsley Amis has suggested that this pronunciation (and the American spelling) be reserved for the thousand-measurer, the wall which ________ says Xerxes built around a thousand troops so he could count his army.
Question 4: Until 1970 the only way to cross the harbour was the Star Ferry which had terminals on the Kowloon peninsular and the island of ________ itself.
Question 7: [2] It is the conventionally used measurement unit for expressing distances between geographical places in most of the world; notable exceptions are the United States and the United Kingdom where the ________ is used.
Question 8: The former pronunciation follows the general pattern in English whereby metric units of measurement are pronounced with the stress on the first syllable, and preserves the pronunciation of ________.
Question 9: However, the Australian Prime Minister at the time, ________, insisted that the second pronunciation was the correct one because of the Greek origins of the two parts of the word.
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