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From: "Caroline Gurney" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] on verso
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 14:24:09 +0100
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Gail Roorda wrote:

<<I cite everything according to Mills, but when I started to write a
citation I wondered whether the use of the term "on verso" is not a trifle
archaic... It seems paricularly inappropriate considering the plain little
photographs I am citing, but I
wonder whether this terminology is not extremely dated when applied to any
such material. Mills herself said in a letter to the list that terms such
as Herinafter cited... have long been abandoned by most style manuals. I
accordingly went through the source templates and deleted this phrase. She
also stated in her books that Latin terms are rarely seen today... although
in this case she was talking about outdated Latin abbreviations op.cit
supra. etc."

Gail,

FWIW when I cite my photographs I use "on the back of", "on the front of".

Many of our record offices here in the UK still use "verso" when citing
documents.

I was surprised when I read "Evidence" recently to see that Ms Mills regards
"op cit" as obsolete. I was taught to use it when I was at university (OK
that was back when dinosaurs roamed the earth <g>) & still do. I used it in
the first essay I did on my IHGS genealogy course & my tutor (a young man)
did not object. Maybe this is a US/UK cultural difference?

Caroline Gurney
Portsmouth, UK


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