Definition Gage and Gauge - Difference between the terms

[TPMB4]

It's a grey / gray area that's for sure. All I can say if you can make a jam out of your American gages that tastes nice I will change my spelling from gauges to gages (go/no go gauges that is).

Until that day I will stick with my Mum's old green gage jam recipe and keep using gauges.

 

[AndyN]

A GAGE is a fixed measuring device, not variable. I.E. gage blocks, go/ nogo gages.

A Gauge is a variable measuring device. Height gaude, calipers, dial indicators are all of this category.

If only it were this complex. It's simply a difference between the American and British spellings - like plough vs plow and many others...

 

[mwohlg]

I like to use gage, because it saves me time typing (tho I did have to add it to My Dictionary so I didn't keep getting the squiggly line reprimand). Saves ink, saves paper, which leads to saving trees, and saving the world. Lets start a movement to end global warming by eliminating all unnecessary letters from awkwardly spelled words...

 

[dgriffith]

A GAGE is a fixed measuring device, not variable. I.E. gage blocks, go/ nogo gages.

A Gauge is a variable measuring device. Height gaude, calipers, dial indicators are all of this category.

I like this one. The (future) value of the measurand on a variable gaUge is Unknown.

But I don't know what the heck a height gaude is . . . .

 

[Kingsld1]

Improved English Spelling (everywhere on the web)

English After All Is An Indo-German Language...
A little news item you may not be aware of...

The European Commission just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase in plan that would be known as "EuroEnglish".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favor of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have less letters.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with the "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"'s in the language is disgraceful, and they should go away. By the 4th year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaiining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.

ACHTUNG! ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!!

Ve haf also decided zat driving vil be changed to ze oposit sid of ze road. Ze first year ve vil change over ze truks and buses.

 

[AndyN]

Indo-German?

 

[APetersen]

A GAGE is a fixed measuring device, not variable. I.E. gage blocks, go/ nogo gages.

A Gauge is a variable measuring device. Height gaude, calipers, dial indicators are all of this category.

This is also what my professor taught us in my tool design class. Though I never found supporting information beyond his source of it.

 

[ChrisM]

Should this thread be dispatched or despatched to the archives??

 

[Bev D]

I am locking the thread. Any new questions should be asked in a new thread.