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Are they still called footnotes if they take half the page? (I prefer parentheses though)
Pratchett would say yes.
Yeah, it's short for "a foot of notes" and the term was coined when the standard page length was 24 inches^1^.
Footnote
^1^This isn't true.House of Leaves thinks they are.