Talk:Klick
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The term is currently also used by civilians, particularly in Canada where road signs and car speedometers use kilometers. suggests that only canada uses the metric system on the road. I'm I just imagining this or i this a bit pov? Bawolff 03:24, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
The term must have been coined because the US Army needed to use metric measurements but no self-respecting American could get himself to actually utter the word "metre" out loud. JIP | Talk 15:03, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Klick (Click)
The term itself may have come from how one checks and adjusts the sights on a rifle. In process, the marksman makes a few trial shots, then decides how much to adjust the sights. Adjustable sights and optical sights have adjustments for up or down, and left or right. These adjustments have a sound or a feel. When making the adjustment one hears a click, or feels a click. I speculate this is also the case for artillery and mortars. --Ron Randall 00:10, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
