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#1
08-30-2007, 12:09 PM
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spelling mistake
has anyone noticed any spelling mistake on their cars?
http://blackevilweredragon.spymac.com/mycar/5.jpg my dashboard doesn't know how to say gauge..
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08-30-2007, 12:24 PM
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Re: spelling mistake
huh, that would be interesting if it's intentional.. kinda confusing to me to be honest.
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08-30-2007, 12:40 PM
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Re: spelling mistake
I think the reason is that some people might pronounce it as "gouge" or "godge" as it is spelled. Using rules of spelling (normally), the word "gage" would be pronounced correctly.
Then again, perhaps it's for another reason altogether. When we first got our '02 Silvy at work, the engine on it was toast and the oil pressure would drop to 0 at idle with the engine warm. The information center would then announce "Check Gages".
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08-30-2007, 02:07 PM
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Re: spelling mistake
Well, my Caprice has no battery right no so I can't check that, but my '89 GMC says "Check Gauges"
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Last edited by PeteA216; 09-09-2007 at 12:17 PM.
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08-31-2007, 10:10 AM
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Re: spelling mistake
That was intentional. The fuses are also marked "GAGE" in the older fuse panels.
On a side note, any of you who may have worked at or with GM in the mind-1990s may have noticed that in company literature, the word "employee" was intentionally misspelled "employe" as a cost-saving measure. Someone calculated the annual cost savings in ink, paper, and time by simply dropping one "E" from the end of the word and submitted it as a Q145 cost saving idea. It was adopted for a few years as a result, and mandated for use in all internal company literature. It used to drive me nuts, even though I wasn't a direct "employe" of the corporation. I wonder how much of that cost "saving" was wasted in instituting the new word and the "proper" use of it.
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09-08-2007, 10:51 PM
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Re: spelling mistake
A few Google hits - It's OK, but not proper...
http://asuwlink.uwyo.edu/~metal/gage.html http://www.antimoon.com/forum/t135.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge At least it doesn't confuse ALT with GEN (us oldtimers remember that one...)
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#8
09-08-2007, 11:23 PM
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Re: spelling mistake
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