[Cold Heart]

“footage” convert to meters as in “roll the meterage”

[Dr. Sivana]

“footage” convert to meters as in “roll the meterage”

Except that a meter is often too long, being more akin to "yardage". We need something bigger than a centimeter, but smaller than a meter ... Decimeterage!

Of course, no one uses either decimeters or decameters, even in the fully metric world. It is even worse with weights, where there is no commonly used term between the miniscule gram and the ~2.1 pound kilogram. Makes it really stupid for buying the metric equivalent of a pound of meet. I have seen Canadian ads for fish where the sell it by the "hundred gram". Even there, they can't bring themselves to call it a hectogram.