As Simple As It Can Be: FAX

Nymann

Posted: 05 February 2003 05:49 AM

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Except that it is a shortening of facsimile, the device used for sending them and facsimile communication it has another, quite peculiar and obsolete meaning: it menas HAIR (appears in surnames such as Fairfax, names of horses - Shadowfax (‘white haired’)
Isn’t it just cute?

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jmonro12

Posted: 05 February 2003 06:15 AM

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Welcome Nymann,
thank you for posting that I didn’t know it before. Interesting:D
J.

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uncronopio

Posted: 05 February 2003 07:44 AM

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I thought that facsimile came from "to make something similar" (Latin facere simile).

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Nymann

Posted: 05 February 2003 11:01 PM

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I thought that facsimile came from "to make something similar" (Latin facere simile).

Yes, it comes from those two Latin words. But ‘fax’ that referrs to hair, comes from a quite different source.

Thanks for the welcome,

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