Hello Alex and Jean I do prefer formulae being like you Alex - old fashioned. Alas formulas is the American spelling and in common usage being widely accepted. My old school English teacher will be groaning who taught me to love the English language.
Regards PeterS Peter Schofield [email protected] On 14 Jun 2013, at 07:47, Alexander Thurgood <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 14/06/13 03:24, Jean Weber a écrit : > > Hi Jean, > >> Kieran asked what form of the plural of "formula" we use. We use >> "formulas" (the modern spelling, used just about everywhere except >> perhaps some academic writing). I shall add that to our style guide. > > I must be terribly old fashioned then, with my British English, and > chemistry background because I still use "formulae". Seems like the > Oxford English Dictionaries also think I'm getting old ;-) > > http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/formula > > > Alex > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
