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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread --- age #42159 09/18/01 06:15 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta B Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta I do dislike signage, as in "Just follow the signage". It doesn't seem to be anything different from just signs. This came up at work today. The number of miles a car has travelled is its mileage (or possibly milage), but here I am in Indonesia so what do I call it: kilometreage? I can't say, "If the mileage for the month exceeds 5000 km", can I. I could talk round it with "the number of kilometres driven" or something like that I know (that's what I did in the end) but are we going to lose a very useful little word. What do people in the metricised parts of the English-speaking world do? Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Two New Words in One Day Father Steve 09/18/01 01:07 AM Vulching Jackie 09/18/01 02:05 AM --- age Bingley 09/18/01 06:15 AM Re: --- age Faldage 09/18/01 12:23 PM Max Quordlepleen 09/18/01 07:44 PM Re: --- age Faldage 09/19/01 01:10 PM Re: --- age maverick 09/19/01 01:35 PM Re: --- age Faldage 09/19/01 01:38 PM Re: --- age belMarduk 09/19/01 12:03 AM Vulching Bobyoungbalt 09/18/01 02:19 AM Re: Vulching Jackie 09/18/01 02:57 AM Re: Vulching Capital Kiwi 09/18/01 05:35 AM Re: Vulching RhubarbCommando 09/18/01 01:17 PM Re: Vulching Faldage 09/18/01 01:22 PM Re: Vulching Geoff 09/18/01 01:47 PM Re: Vulching inselpeter 09/18/01 02:46 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,915 Posts229,995 Members9,198 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members testawad, Bill_L, achz, MAGNVSTALSMA, Burlyfish 9,198 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 1,044 guests, and 2 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 27 A C Bowden 15 LukeJavan8 6 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,957 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,956 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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