OKAY I guess I can add my 2 cents worth....
The definition for AWG in the Ontario Electrical Safety Code says:
AWG: means the American (or Brown and Sharpe) Wire Gauge as applied to nonferrous conductors and nonferrous sheet metal.
A GOOGLE search on <AWG Browne and Sharpe> has a number of responses with the following URL being an informative explanation of AWG.
http://www.elproman.se/eng/produkter/kabel/tabeller/awgtext.html The following site from the same GOOGLE search provides a standard wire gauge cross-reference.
http://www.chainmaille.org/reference/stdgage.htm OLE, el Toro......
Doug..........et al
[This message has been edited by DGT (edited 01-16-2004).]