French term (edited): barres tir�es dans les blancs

Yes, here it is again:

http://www.proz.com/kudoz/971126

See the original question for explantaion and alternatives

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Cheers, Guylaine! Next time give the new ProZ.com Term Search a try --- it seems to be a huge improvement over the confusing old system

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As Jane says, \'blanks ruled out\' is a fairly anbbreviated term, appropriate possibly for the kind of way this is often used at the end of French legal documents:

\"Number of blanks ruled out\" and so on...

But I think \'blank spaces\' IS better, certainly if used in other contexts; the question of \'ruled\' vs. \'crossed\' our is an interesting one; a quick Google only gives a few refs. for \'rule out blank spaces\', and all from the same UK bank; \'cross out...\' gets a few more. I think this may be a BE / AE thing; certainly, \'to rule out\' or \'to rule through\' is an expression I\'m very familair with in UK commercial English, I suspect it may be more old-fashioned and less common than the US equivalent of \'crossed out\'.

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Sorry for typos:

anbbreviated > abbreviated
our > out
familair > familiar