Agreed Boyd. I don't know how to gauge Bob's response.Well, the USGS doesn't agree, they call them "gages" and that is how they are labeled on the topo map (look at the screenshot you posted).
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The USGS Groundwater and Streamflow Information Program supports the collection and (or) delivery of both streamflow and water-level information at approximately 8,500 sites and water-level information alone for more than 1,700 additional sites. The data are served online—most in near...www.usgs.gov
No big deal, either way is correct, but why include a silent letter in a word when it isn't needed?
You mean like School, why isn't it Scool? Go to school and tell your teacher it's scool, see what she says.No big deal, either way is correct, but why include a silent letter in a word when it isn't needed?
Here you go Einstein.You guys agree because you are old fuddy-duddies. But I'm right on this, and you are not. And either way is not correct. If you are measuring something it's gauge. You better go back to school.
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From your article:Here you go Einstein.
Boyd and I shall remain triumphant in this battle.
Why does the USGS use the spelling "gage" instead of "gauge"? | U.S. Geological Survey
The spelling of “gage” is part of our very rich USGS history. We have used that spelling for over a hundred years. In 1888, USGS Director John Wesley Powell met a very forward-thinking graduate student named Frederick Haynes Newell. Powell was so impressed that he made Newell the first...www.usgs.gov
Don't take it like that, I had great fun debating it last night.Geez Bob... I honestly don't care enough to argue about something this ridiculous. Spell it however you like and be be happy.
"ascertain by exact measurements," mid-15c., from Anglo-French gauge (mid-14c.), from Old North French gauger "standardize, calibrate, measure" (Old French jaugier), from gauge "gauging rod," a word of unknown origin. Perhaps from Frankish *galgo "rod, pole for measuring" or another Germanic source (compare Old Norse gelgja "pole, perch," Old High German galgo; see gallows). Related: Gauged; gauging. The figurative use is from 1580s. "The spelling variants gauge and gage have existed since the first recorded uses in Middle English, though in American English gage is found exclusively in technical uses" [Barnhart].