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
