Originally Posted by
datlas
Please tell me you don't say "sohntometer" for centimeter. That's a snooty physician affectation that drives me NUTS! One of my partners does it. Crazy! I think it's pseudo-French.
I thought that was primarily a surgical affectation, like "oblike" for oblique. My dad said "sohntimeter" but he was foreign.
Oh, and I don't say "kit," either.