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Be strong, Swampthing, it's never easy to fight for the nomenclature of your choice. Years ago, I used to dabble in H0n36, but everyone else in the hobby insisted on calling it HOn3, so I dropped out of it.[;)][:D] Way back in time, the origin of "O" was not a letter, it was a number, and it was not a scale, it was a gauge..."0" was the next size down from #1 gauge, and was expressed as "ought". This was across the pond, and "ought gauge" used a scale of 7mm. However, in the USA, the number 0 was usually expressed as "zero", and in many cases, ( especially for telephone numbers )as "oh"...from whence the letter came to be substituted for the number. The scales used over here for O gauge have varied a lot as well, not at all limited to the rather incorrect scale for the gauge, of 1/48. So the main thing is to enjoy your scale and gauge, even if some dinosaur like me might call it 1/4 n 2 1/2, ( but only in jest, or a moment of weakness ).[8D] regards \ Mike
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