Friday 17 May 2019

Stet

While working through some paperwork this afternoon, I came across a date which I thought was wrong, so I scored it through. Later when I had got to the bottom of the matter, I realised that the date was actually correct but that some of the other information on the sheet had been entered for the wrong day. So I wrote stet by the scoring through to indicate that the date stood, and the crossing out should be ignored. Only afterwards did it occur to me that what I had written was a Latin subjunctive meaning "Let it stand." Interestingly, stet has its own entry on Wikipedia.