plague-of-grackles 😷🍉🐈⬛amcooper@toot.cat
Oct 15, 2026, 9:09 PMThe word "gauge" is one of those words in English which is (I think) the only example of its peculiar spelling (/eɪ/ spelled "au" with lengthening final "e").
It also turns out to have a mysterious etymology, as yet untraced beyond the previous millennium: