Hey Hugo,

I'm throwing my bits in with everyone else backing "gauge". I have never
seen "gage" in print outside of people who were learning to spell or
verified typos. I've only seen it used as a reference to a measurement of
size, typically of metals, cylinders, or wires, or as a verb meaning to
"size up". Granted, I'm more of a working-class dilettante than a scholar
or expert, but still . . .

Rx.

On Sunday, July 14, 2019 at 3:41:20 PM UTC-7, Hugo Kornelis wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> Just ran into something that confuses me.
>
> I ran a text through a spell checker that was set to US English. It
> marked "gauge" (used as a verb) as incorrect spelling, and offered
> "gage" as replacement. I had already noticed that this spellchecker has
> a rather incomplete dictionary so I wanted to double check. And that's
> where it gets confusing.
>
> Some sites I found insist that "gauge" is correct spelling, in both
> British and American, for to measure or estimate the size of something.
> And that "gage", again in both British and American, means something
> completely different: a valuable deposited as guarantee.
> But other sites do agree with the interpretation that "gage" is the
> Ammerican spelling of "gauge" in the measurement / estimation meaning.
>
> I final test, with another spellchecker (the one in MS Word), does
> accept gauge as correct spelling in US English.
>
> As always when I run into a question on correctness in English
> vocabulary, grammar, and spelling, I turn to this small group of
> language addicts. Can anyone here shed some light on this?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Cheers,
> Hugo
>

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