RE: "Gage"

["Lauren" <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>]

> From: Downing, David

> Sounds like yet another example of a misspelling becoming accepted
> because everyone was doing it.

Yeah, like "color" and "favor."

> And while we're back on the subject of twisting the language, did you
> say "tolerancing"???  I'm not sure how much tolerance I have for that
> one -- and my spell checker does *not* recognize that one.

Does your spell checker contain *all* mechanical and engineering terms that
are not in regular dictionaries?  When I worked on mining documents, I came
across industry-specific terms that the Word spell checker did not
recognize.  

I want to find a collection of dictionaries (.dic text files) that catalog
words from different industries, like engineering.dic, mining.dic,
philosophy.dic, and law.dic.  That would be cool.

Lauren


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