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Or perhaps a vet2
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OriginalGriff wrote: Dogtor?
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Because many of his patients would think it was a catastrophe?
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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I had a dogter. She said I needed a cat scan. I tried to collar for an appt, but she fleas the country fur no reason. At leash I was able to talk to the secretary "8 o'clock? No? O K nine."
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In the context of automobiles, countries that use "mile" will say something like, "What is the mileage of that car?" For countries that use "kilometer," what do they say in this regard?
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In Israel, we say "kilometrage" (accent on the last syllable).
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I imagine it is something along the lines of Kilometerage. Even though it sounds weird.
My reasoning being if you Google translate "mileage" to various language, you get some equivalent of that. For example, french = "kilométrage" and German is "Kilometerstand".
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In Sweden, we don't really have a word for it, that I know of anyway. The closest would be "kilometertalet" which translated pretty mych corresponds to the "Kilometrage" that has already been suggested.
Most commonly we ask, if we want to know that, something like: "How far has it driven?" (translated into English)
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I would have expected something like 'Smörgaskilo' 
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Miltal.
Note that the Swedish mil is quite different to the English or Roman mile.
But we still use it though.
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Johnny J. wrote: "How far has it driven?"
"The farthest? To the other side of town, and back. And repeated many times over".
That would be my pedantic answer.
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What context is mileage ? fuel consumption ? or the odometer value ?
for fuel consumption, in french we just do it the long way "la consommation de carburant est de xxx liter per km".
I'd rather be phishing!
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"xxx liters per 100 km".
FTFY.
Unless you like using small fractional units? 
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In England we are traditionalists so despite trying to use kilometers and litres we still say "Mileage"! 
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Forogar wrote: despite trying to use kilometers
Since when? All speed limits are in MPH; all signs with distances show miles; speedometers show both, but emphasise MPH. Where are we trying to use kilometers?
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We are not. But since @Forogar is a foreigner he wouldn't know.
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Quote: since @Forogar is a foreigner
Cheek!
Born in Watford I'll have you know!
I only live in the colonies!
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I used to live in Hemel Hempstead; spent many a boring hour shopping in Watford.
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My mother was born in Hemel Hempstead but I left Watford when I was less than 1 year old so I don't really know the area. I was brought up in Blackpool where my parents ran a couple of hotels.
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When I still lived in Blighty I noticed that the road construction signs that said things like "Road Works 300 yds" occasionally said "Road Works 300m" as they tried to go metric, a bit - although it failed to get traction - which is why I said "trying to use". 
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Metres we can just about cope with. Kilometres will still get you burned as a witch in most places.
Although I still wonder why nobody ever seems to use megametres, gigametres, etc. Even in sci-fi, short distances in space are given in "million kilometres".
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It's a silent protest against total metrification! We can't stop it, but we can slow it down. 
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Yeah, but we stick to miles-per-hour for speed limits, and miles-to-town for direction signage.
I suspect we have never (and will never) switch to KPH or Km-to-go because of the sheer cost and time involved in switching over all the aluminium signage!
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Another nail in the Anti-Brexit League's coffin?
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