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Re: Forms in 1790
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2006 Apr 30, 17:57 +1000
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2006 Apr 30, 17:57 +1000
No, agree its nothing important. I wonder if 'form' isn't an abbreviation, and is derived from formula ? Frank Reed you wrote: >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...
