>>>OK OK guys, I accept that I am the only person who cannot correlate a "lines in a grid" to a "rows in a Grid" :)
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>>Actually, being an ex-military man, if anything I'd correlate columns with lines before rows.
>>The issue disappears when you call those things around cells borders instead of lines.
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>Ah, but we live in an imperfect world. So Microsoft will call three different things a cursor. It will call a folder a directory for years and then call it a folder even though it was NIH. It will call its file browser an explorer, of windows first then of files, even though it can't explore any of them. It will call the zone at the end of its taskbar a system tray, then call it notification area. It will call many things queryThis and queryThat, regardles of all of them being unrelated to queries.
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>So yes, these are actually called gridlines, so they are lines. I once complained (on xkcd's forum) on the general ambiguity of english language (and Microsoft's misnomers only ascerbate the problem), to which the moderator told me that it has all the tools it needs to express oneself unambiguously. Which proves my point - it has them because it needs them, but the problem is in the speaker, who is unaware of the need to use them.

| 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'
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| 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
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| 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master — that's all.'