Yes, I agree. The word mileage can stay, it can be replaced sometimes with ' distance'. However, especially if you want to apply the rule Quantity = Numeric value * Unit. When the Castlebar Four Days Walks used miles their Certificate of Fitness stated at first: Total mileage covered.... , then it became Total Distance covered.....miles; and in the end it became Total Distance covered......km. We still know the word acre (akker) and acreage (akkerland); it now means field for growing crops and acreage means possessing such fields, expressed in hectares: "Ik heb 120 ha akkerland" or "Ich besitze 120 ha Akkerland" = My acreage is 120 ha. The original meaning of the word 'akker', a unit of measurement, is only known by historians of measurement. A placename like Vierakker shows the original meaning of the akker as a unit; translated it would mean Fouracres. And fathometers can measure depths in meters; no problems. I saw fathometers on Dutch warships set to meters. They could also be set to feet and fathoms.
Han ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Wade VMS Systems" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 2003-03-19 16:49 Subject: [USMA:25216] Re: How is the metrication progress in us politics? by the way, I think with metrication should also come 1. international road signs 2.. 24 h clock usage 3. replacing the word mileage with kilometrage (french pronounced) 4. no MM/DD/YYYY any more replace it with YYYY-MM-DD 5. no metrication of pound/pint to 500 g/mL 1, 2 & 4 I support 100%. 5 I could live with, but I'd prefer to see the term disappear completely. However, point 3 I would disagree with. <snip>
