TIL the United States Geological Survey (USGS) uses the term "Gage" instead of "Gauge" because one employee in 1892 reasoned that the term "Gage" was the "proper Saxon spelling," instead of the Norman "Gauge"
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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.www.usgs.gov
