Frankly, "fuel consumption" works either way: km/L or L/100 km.
Which makes me wonder about other colloquialisms: Why do people call land area "acreage", fuel consumption "mileage", etc. -- in other words, get the FFU unit into the description? Also, Saturday evening at a produce stand I was re-introduced to the quaintness of bushels, pecks, and dry quarts. Weird. Carleton In a message dated Mon, 1 Jul 2002 10:26:56 AM Eastern Standard Time, "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >A better word in English would simply be "yield." > >Bill Potts, CMS >Roseville, CA >http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >> Behalf Of Wizard of OS >> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 07:47 >> To: U.S. Metric Association >> Subject: [USMA:20746] Re: L/100 km >> >> >> don't call it mileage >> >> they is a beautiful word, french pronounced: KILOMETRAGE! >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Michael D Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 4:49 AM >> Subject: [USMA:20744] Re: L/100 km >> >> >> > >> > >> > On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 14:47:58 -0700 Brian J White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > writes: >> > > Sorry to say....but I kinda agree with him. � I think km per liter >> > > would >> > > have been a much better choice than liters per 100km. >> > >> > L/100 km is fuel consumption >> > km/L is mileage (in km, I still call it mileage!) >> > >> > Mike Payne >> > >> > >> > ________________________________________________________________ >> > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! >> > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! >> > Join Juno today! �For your FREE software, visit: >> > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. >> > >> > >
