On 3/21/06, fantasai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Christoph Paeper wrote:
>
> I'm not a native speaker and would have written it correctly. OTOH I
> never would have imagined the alleged AE spelling 'gage' [LEO], because
> I would pronounce that completely different: /gO:Z/ vs. /geIdZ/ [SAMPA].
I pronounce it "gayj". So do most of the civil engineers I know.
As for spelling, I'm likely to use "gage" for e.g. "22-gage steel deck",
but I'm inclined to use "gauge" for "fuel gauge". But that's just me.
~fantasai
