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MikeRenz

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does is bother anyone else that they misspelled "gauge" throughout the manuals.

"Gage" as they have it is


1: a token of defiance; specifically : a glove or cap cast on the ground to be taken up by an opponent as a pledge of combat


2: something deposited as a pledge of performance



its a middle English variant of gauge, but looks stupid in the manuals. It bugs me.

that is all.
 
powercat6

powercat6

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Now you know how Quickstop feels. We're always leaving the "U"s out of the Queen's English.
 
wheels

wheels

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Gage is a variant of gauge according to various sources. Still not cool.
 
gstacky

gstacky

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I just thought it was an American way of spelling it. Just like us Canadians spell flavour with the "u", and others, lol. Spelling drives me nuts too. Like seeing a Craigs list add that states "I want to sale my truck", its SELL dammit, sell my truck. Sorry for the rant!!
 
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MikeRenz

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gstacky said:
I just thought it was an American way of spelling it. Just like us Canadians spell flavour with the "u", and others, lol. Spelling drives me nuts too. Like seeing a Craigs list add that states "I want to sale my truck", its SELL dammit, sell my truck. Sorry for the rant!!
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misuse of the word "sale" is prevalent around here too :lol: I fix it in the titles of threads when I see it because it bugs me.
 
TNPhoon

TNPhoon

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gstacky said:
I just thought it was an American way of spelling it. Just like us Canadians spell flavour with the "u", and others, lol. Spelling drives me nuts too. Like seeing a Craigs list add that states "I want to sale my truck", its SELL dammit, sell my truck. Sorry for the rant!!
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There is a car dealership down the road from my house that has "BUY, SALE, TRADE" on their sign. Drives me nuts every time I drive by it.
 
JSM

JSM

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Work in manufacturing where we use all kinds of guages, gages, gauges, etc.

Our work instructions here, and even documents from vendors spell it all different.

Thread Guage, Gauge, Gage?
 
Quickstop [UK]

Quickstop [UK]

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Not different. Wrong.

People make mistakes and it gets overlooked for those reasons; that someone else did it so it must be legit.

The point of a standard is just that - it is a standard. If everyone started using their own versions then chaos would ensue.

Somebody at GM probably didn't know how to spell when they drafted it and then the copy writer thought it was a legit technical reference and now people are saying "that's how they did it". Group think.

Gauge is correct.
Gage in this context isn't.
Guage certainly isn't.

The trouble is, people don't think it is important. There is a guy at uni who thinks that when you lose your vision due to diabetes, it is pronounced "glycoma". The correct version is glaucoma. Glau - pronounced similarly to "how".

Engineers and scientists wouldn't stand for using inches, metres, bananas etc. interchangeably but in language, it's apparently ok. No, it's not.

I think that incorrect spelling and grammar is horrible. People have these spelling errors on their store fronts, on websites and all over, advertising their illiteracy. They should be ruthlessly hunted down. :D

Don't even get me started on the incorrect use of apostrophes. A plural? Don't make me laugh!
 
Quickstop [UK]

Quickstop [UK]

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ty166 said:
thats funny right there.....
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Touché!

That's

:tup:

:D

I accept that forums are an awkward ground for typos, especially with people posting from tiny phones (and not always sober ;) )but you can tell the difference between a genuine mistake and plain old bad schooling. I guess you have to accept it most of the time!

Fair one though... People in glass houses and all! :D

There's a question though... Will predictive text in phones make otherwise bad spelling better?
 
TNPhoon

TNPhoon

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Quickstop [UK] said:
There's a question though... Will predictive text in phones make otherwise bad spelling better?
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Will or does?

If you all dont have predictive text on youre phone's over their in the UK yet, than you are farther behind then I thought.
 
Quickstop [UK]

Quickstop [UK]

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TNPhoon said:
Technically it's y'all. :roll:

Figured you would have learned that by now with all the Tim McGraw and country music concerts you drag you're woman to.
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I know that. You missed an opportunity to butcher the language further.

It's a contraction of "you all" similar to "it is" which become "y'all" and "it's" respectively. I see a lot of "ya'll" out there and I find it irksome to say the least!
 
Norm

Norm

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What bothers me about the way people speak is when they say they are going on holidays when they are actually going on vacation. Then you correct them and they ask you what the difference is. Or they say they are going skidoing when they are going snowmobiling. Skidoo is a brand name not a hobby.
 
TY0618

TY0618

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[ Skidoo is a brand name not a hobby.[/QUOTE]

It can be...it depends on how beat up your machine is! :rotf:
 
Quickstop [UK]

Quickstop [UK]

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Woman on the street told her kid off for "scootering".

It's a scooter. It enables you to scoot. Thus, the kid should stop scooting.
 
Jimmy

Jimmy

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I cut metal and when it comes back marked "to short" it makes me feel stupid for working with these imbiciles.
 
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