"Gage"

["Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com>]

At 2:59 PM -0600 12/9/08, Nancy Allison wrote:
>While "guage" is definitely not correct, I had the painful experience
of
>working in a technical environment that spelled the word "gage." It was
>widely accepted, too, and I had to bite the bullet and spell it that
>way. Still a disturbing memory!
>
>--Nancy

Well:

Gage is the generally used term in the mechanical engineering field 
in reference to various instruments for geometric dimensioning and 
tolerancing. i.e. thread gage, depth gage...

And it is an alternative spelling for gauge. If you don't like it, 
you may cast your gage and challenge them to unequal combat of wits.

Scott

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Sounds like yet another example of a misspelling becoming accepted
because everyone was doing it. But I concede that it  has become
*officially* accepted, because it's in my spell checker's dictionary.

And while we're back on the subject of twisting the language, did you
say "tolerancing"???  I'm not sure how much tolerance I have for that
one -- and my spell checker does *not* recognize that one.

David
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