Timeline for Mileage as unit-agnostic term
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| Jul 13, 2019 at 15:45 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Note also that the measurement-system-agnostic usage (a 'mileage chart' showing distances in kilometres) is not the same as the metaphorical usage ('there's a lot of mileage left in this suit'). | |
| Dec 14, 2013 at 14:53 | comment | added | GEdgar | In the US, when we ask about "miles per gallon" fuel efficiency, we may call it mileage. fueleconomy.gov In the UK or NZ, etc., when they ask about "liters per kilometer" I assume they do not call it mileage, though? | |
| Dec 14, 2013 at 12:15 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I'm sure it doesn't matter where there's no potential conflict of registers. We had trouble (when teaching maths) deciding what to call the erstwhile 'mileage charts' when using kilometres, though. (We opted for 'distance charts'.) | |
| Dec 14, 2013 at 6:17 | answer | added | Kris | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 14, 2013 at 1:37 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/411671142215479296 | ||
| Dec 13, 2013 at 22:09 | vote | accept | Southpaw Hare | ||
| Dec 13, 2013 at 21:20 | answer | added | long | timeline score: 11 | |
| Dec 13, 2013 at 21:04 | history | asked | Southpaw Hare | CC BY-SA 3.0 |