check "gage"?

[John V. Curatolo]

I'm sorry if this has been covered before, but why does the indicator say
check "gage" when fuel is low? Should that be "gauge", or is that some
alternate spelling I'm not aware of?
--
John V. Curatolo
jv...@cornell.edu

[Dr. Bob]

It's offen hard to gage the level of intelligents of cannidates for
tecknikle positions. Seams that more and more and more graduits have
problims with simpel stuff like speling, but their's no way to tell
this until its two late.

More likely, there was only room on the panel for four letters, so the
less-than-universal "gage" was used. Seems like the panel is big
enough to stuff an extra letter in there without cramping the steering
wheel too much. (doncha think?) Hey, "check" has the same number of
letters as "gauge". It shooda fit OK.

[my daddy was a PhD. candidate at Cornell (wasn't 'cornell.edu' back
then...) when I was hatched. A little of that has rubbed off on me
over the years, but obviously not enough...]

dr bob

[Jim@work]

John V. Curatolo wrote:
>
> I'm sorry if this has been covered before, but why does the indicator say
> check "gage" when fuel is low? Should that be "gauge", or is that some
> alternate spelling I'm not aware of?
> --
> John V. Curatolo
> jv...@cornell.edu

It kan bee speld both wieghs - gage and gauge. Eye prefur gauge

Czech owt an knee dickshunary wheb paige.

[Mulepick]

Clearly Ford allowed some Ivy League bad-apple into the barrel when they should
have stuck with the guys from the big midwestern degree mills.

Bob
Mule...@aol.com
B.S. Michigan State '77