Timeline for What does the word "Print" mean on a form?
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| Jun 20, 2013 at 1:57 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Grant: The more common form is "Signed", which means This document is hereby signed by [your signature]. That form is clearly addressed at future readers of the document (after you've signed it). But there's an increasing tendency to use "Signature", because you can understand it as meaning Put your signature here, and future readers can understand it as Here is the signer's signature. | |
| Jun 19, 2013 at 17:43 | comment | added | J.R.♦ | @Grant: you will often see "Signature" instead of "Signed"; both are common and valid. I'd be very surprised to see "Signing", though. When used as a noun, "signing" refers to the event, not the signature. "Autograph" is usually a name by itself (or perhaps with a short caption), such as a celebrity would write on a photograph, whereas "Signed" or "Signature" is used to acknowledge or attest to something. | |
| Jun 19, 2013 at 17:39 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Autograph is inappropriate; you would autograph a photo of yourself or a book you had written and had published. Signature and signed are both used equally in filling forms. | |
| Jun 19, 2013 at 17:19 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Jun 19, 2013 at 17:18 | comment | added | Grant | Thank you. Just an additional, unimportant question: Why not "Signature", "Signing", or "Autograph" instead of "Signed"? | |
| Jun 19, 2013 at 17:14 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Jun 19, 2013 at 16:55 | history | answered | Alex P | CC BY-SA 3.0 |