- From: mozer <xmlizer@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:39:04 +0100
<score> +1 On 3/21/06, fantasai <fantasai.lists at inkedblade.net> 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 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20060321/d3899ce7/attachment.htm>
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