Timeline for Why do we use back and forward instead of backward and forward?
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| Oct 25, 2023 at 9:17 | comment | added | Stuart F | Brevity is also important in UI design, especially on small screens. But I still think "back" sounds more natural for reasons given. "Next" and "previous"/"prev" are alternatives (or if on Fetlife, "perv"). | |
| S Dec 28, 2018 at 7:37 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
fixed broken link to google Ngram viewer
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| Jan 29, 2015 at 4:05 | vote | accept | qwertzguy | ||
| Jan 29, 2015 at 4:05 | comment | added | qwertzguy | And small nit: your link to google ngrams is unfortunately broken, the quotes needs to be removed in the query. | |
| Jan 29, 2015 at 4:00 | comment | added | qwertzguy | Interestingly "go forth" used to be more mainstream but "go forward" took the lead around 1915: books.google.com/ngrams/… | |
| Sep 18, 2014 at 2:19 | comment | added | user0721090601 | Plus, for me, Go back and Go backward(s) are a bit different. Go back is return from some starting point, go backward(s) implies moving — without a stopping point per se — in reverse. Oddly, neither go forward and go forth seem to have the same implication as go back does. Crazy English language. | |
| Sep 18, 2014 at 0:25 | history | migrated | from ux.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Sep 17, 2014 at 17:38 | history | answered | Tim FitzGerald | CC BY-SA 3.0 |