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Re: Easy Lunars in 1790
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 Apr 30, 03:12 EDT
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 Apr 30, 03:12 EDT
I wrote earlier: > Speaking of peculiar terminology, > you've probably noticed that Margetts (also a few years later, Norie) > uses "formulae" to refer to fill-in worksheets or work forms > (formulae --forms, I suppose). You replied: > No, formulae = formulas. Its just an alternate spelling.yeah. I was talking about the usage of the word FORM versus "formula". Have you ever filled out a "tax formula"?? Possibly it's an American English versus other Englishes thing. Do you yourself refer to a sheet with fill-in blanks as a "formula" or do you call that a "form"? Two hundred years ago, navigators refered to fill-in worksheets as "formulae". Today we call those "forms". Nothing important, of course... -FER 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W. www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
