"Ruth is 1.65 m" ?

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How to pronounce both "Ruth" and "1.65 m" in the sentence "Ruth is 1.65 m" ?
 

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Are you asking about how to pronounce the words or how to make a sentence with the words?

Ruth is 1.65 m tall.
 

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Are you asking about how to pronounce the words or how to make a sentence with the words?

Ruth is 1.65 m tall.

I'm asking how to pronounce the word "Ruth" : does the vowel "u" have the same pronunciation as the first syllable in the word "about" ?

And how to say : 1.65 metre : "one hundred sixty five centimeters" or "one meter and sixty five centimeters" or maybe something else ?
 

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Ruth sounds like tooth.

I'd say she's "one point six five meters tall."
 

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Similarly to Bard_D, I say '1.65m' as 'one point six five metres'.

Well I'd say '5 foot 6ish', but if forced to go metric I'd say '1 metre 65'. (One shouldn't really say '65', as it's a decimal quantity; but then again, using SI units, one shouldn't deal in centimetres at all. ;-))

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Well, yeah, I'd say something more like that too -- I can't think in meters. For me, it's always "3 foot and a touch."
 

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Well I'd say '5 foot 6ish', but if forced to go metric I'd say '1 metre 65'. (One shouldn't really say '65', as it's a decimal quantity; but then again, using SI units, one shouldn't deal in centimetres at all. ;-))

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I'm stuck in the middle with temperature- I have lived abroad long enough to forget Fahrenheit but haven't fully adopted Celsius.
 

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I'm stuck in the middle with temperature- I have lived abroad long enough to forget Fahrenheit but haven't fully adopted Celsius.

The key to that is the two palindromes: 61/16 and 82/28; then just guess.

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Thanks- that will help once winter's finished. ;-)
 
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