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Gauge - its a noun not a verb

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This is intended for the ill informed and the uninformed.

The word "Gauge" comes from a rough form of measuring wires. The reason this was developed was because when in need of a wire with a diameter of say .0799 mm it be came more accurate to give a generalized term, like gauge. So instead of asking for a wire with a diameter of .0799mm you can ask for a 40 gauge wire.

The American piercing community picked up the term gauge to measure the diameter of jewelery instead of using millimeters. Body piercing uses every other gauge to measure and create jewelery (22,20,18...8,6,4,2,0,00), this is roughly a millimeter jump each gauge. The smaller the number the bigger the jewelery, and the gauge measurement only goes to 00 or in some cases double 000 -- after such, we use inch measurements (...1/2, 3/4, 1inch and so on), or in some cases millimeters (...20mm, 20.5mm, 21mm and so on).

This, of course, is where my issue arises. For some odd reason people have started calling the stretching of body piercings "gauging" and calling jewelery "gauges". The word Gauge is meant to describe the size of the jewelery, which makes it a noun. In no way is it a verb, gauge is not an action. What is a verb, is stretching, and its also the proper terminology to describe the action done to ears and other body parts when a body piercing is made bigger.

Body Jewelery are not "gauges" they are ear pieces, or barbells, or plugs, tunnels, captive bead rings... and so on. These things have names, what they don't have and truthfully don't need, is a generalized term for EVERYTHING.

Please be intelligent, sound like you know what your talking about. It's not hard, I promise, know what your doing. If you don't know, research, ask questions, go to a professional.

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