[whatwg] A better name than <gauge> for the element that shows a measurement from fantasai on 2006-03-21 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from March 2006)

From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:53:43 -0500
Message-ID: <44202F97.1040903@inkedblade.net>

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

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