Carleton, all, sirs:
"Mileage, 89000 km."
Something to creat confusion & perhaps build anti-metric lobby!
Should we start referring to project progress points as "kilostones"? ;)
And, as Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru said during his later years: ".....and Miles
to go before I sleep".
During my perusal & tryst with Metrication, I used: Kiloshila for Milestone
in one of my cotributions: 'Yet Another Kiloshila: Patriot Magazine, New
Delhi; 1981 August 16'
Milestone = kiloshila/kilostone.
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From: "Carleton MacDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:39050] Re: Non-metric idioms and figures of speech
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:06:58 -0400
"Mileage, 89000 km."
Sheesh.
cm
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Scott Hudnall
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 18:19
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:39044] Re: Non-metric idioms and figures of speech
I think words persist long after anyone know their meaning. For instance,
video is mostly digital these days, and measured in by time index in
seconds, rather than by the foot - but the term "footage" still persists.
I am almost 40 years old, and have taken medications only in milligrams my
whole life. Since I was never taught the unit "grains" in school, it was
not
until I began participating on this listserve that I understood the phrase
"take it with a grain of salt" was referring to an actual quantity.
In Canada, vehicle mileage is listed in kilometers. Here is a link for a
car
for sale .. check it out!
http://driving.canada.com/buy/used/details.spy?carid=1385886
On Tuesday, July 10, 2007, at 02:29PM, "Michael Palumbo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>This may seem like a silly question, but it's been bothering me lately.
>
>In colloquial English, we have a lot of odd phrases & words that refer
>to our customary/imperial system of measure. A few that come to mind
are:
>- Mileage
>- Milestone
>- Mile a minute
>- Miles & miles
>- Missed by a mile
>- Inched forward
>- Every inch a [blank], i.e. "every inch a king".
>- Inch by inch
>- Within an inch of
>- The whole nine yards
>
>The list goes on and on.
>
>Both the beauty and difficulty of our language is how much of it is
>culled from other sources. So what are we to do with such phrases?
>Should we even trouble ourselves to their existence? With words such as
>"mileage", is there a metric substitute such as "metreage"? It doesn't
>make sense to me to say, "My auto has low mileage" when I'm not counting
>it's use in miles. Should we start referring to project progress points
>as "kilostones"? ;)
>
>Cheers,
>Mike
>
>
>
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