Being an old geezer, I was aware of the very occasional usage of
formulae and such back in the day of my grade-school parochial education
or my college-prep years at Marquette University High School in
Milwaukee. As with you, I have almost never observed its usage in the US
the past half century.
I was required to take two years of Latin at MUHS. As a result, I
learned Latin declensions, conjugations, and such before going on to
study German (my father's father is an Austrian immigrant from the
Kaernten Alps--Achomitz) for my final two years in high school and
afterward Russian and Spanish while an electrical-engineering student in
college--at Marquette U and the University of Wisconsin.
Gary
On 6/14/2013 7:19 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
I am only familiar with "formulas", and have not, until today, seen
the other form. I was under the impression that the intention was to
go with US English Spelling in the documentation, but my memory is
sufficiently poor regarding such things that I would have asked. I
think that is really the question then, do you tend towards US or UK
spelling.
On 06/14/2013 05:07 PM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
On 14/06/13 18:35, Gary Schnabl wrote:
The term "helluvalot" almost always gets past automatic censoring on
forums or comment boards...
BTW, I am not a purist on English usage; you might be, though.
That's tautological, don't you think? Clearly you're not a purist and
yes, I am.
Working hard to not soil myself from laughing so hard when I see such
an exchange...
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