[lit-ideas] Re: GRE Registration

  • From: "Erin Holder" <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 21:22:12 -0400

But any piece of paper can be jotted on.
Erin
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Judy Evans 
  To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 9:08 PM
  Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: GRE Registration


  Friday, May 13, 2005, 12:23:06 AM, Robert Paul wrote:

  RP> Judy Evans wrote:


  >> RP> Just what you'd expect a Canadian to say. However, scrap paper, 
although
  >> RP> it can be jotted on (q.v.) is paper meant for scrap.
  >> 
  >> No it is not!  It is scrap paper!

  RP> I'm not sure how this gets us any forwarder.

  Scrap paper is paper that can be jotted on, not paper that is intended
  for scrap.

  http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/tests/mathstest.htm

  http://www.wasteonline.org.uk/resources/InformationSheets/Paper.htm

  *waste* paper may be made into scrap, "scrap" paper used for jotting
  on during that process:

  http://www.ecoaction.richmond.gov.uk/paper.htm

  "Scrap" paper is not acceptable in all examinations -- see below --
  but not because it is intended only for scrap:


  http://www.lnat.ac.uk/faqs.html

  computer printout paper "will be reused either for computer printing
  or as scrap paper for notes, drafts etc. The Company recycles its
  **waste** paper,"  (** mine)

  http://www.hydro-logic.co.uk/BB_environmentalPolicy.php

  "scrap" paper may be used in fax machines and for printing internal
  memos etc.:

  http://www.recyclenow.com/at_work/scale_down_the.html

  I think these pages (consecutive top hits for "scrap paper" +UK) serve
  to make the point that in the UK (and, it seems, Canada) "scrap paper"
  normally means what "scratch paper" means in the US.  Some people here
  do, it seems, now say "scratch paper", I suspect by analogy with
  "scratch pad", as in online and other software scratch pads.


  I also think this gets us forwarder.


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