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#47735 11/15/01 01:58 AM
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As a smart alec I would call it the sum. I would scorn to call it "the bottom line".


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The sumtotal?

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(A long line of figures eh.....reminds me of when I volunteered to judge the local Lions Club's fashion parade......on the basis that I was good with figures!!)


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Dear stales: I didn't use "sum total" because I thought it would be tautological. But when I looked in my dictionary just now it gives "sum total" and points out that it is the total of a series of sums. Depending on the method of adding. If I don't use calculator, I add the units column, etc. So this aleck outsmarted himself.


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Well, keeping in line with the "Footnotes" thread title, I thought you might like to know that AHD defines "footing" as the sum of a column of figures, a use of footing I had never heard before.

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I see no merit in that definition.


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foot, v. - 4 a : to add up b : to pay or stand credit for <foot the bill>


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I wonder how long the US must remain on a war footing.


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Just to answer your question about the name of the sewing machine with the foot pedal. The old ones built around 1900 were called Treadle Machines and they take some coordination to operate but they are fun if you can get the parts to maintain it.


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Thanks, Satin, for the name of the treadle sewing machine.
Off hand, I don't think tread has been mentioned here at all, so that's a good addition.

wwh, I'm sorry you don't like footing for a sum of a long column of figures, but I like do like it although hardly anyone in this world would understand me if I used it, so it's destined to be a WAD word and probably nothing else save in my dreams. Bon soir...


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Dear WW: my favorite pastime is bitching about dictionaries.


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