fullscap or foolscap paper? (:*?

Answer 1

Robertmca has given you a good description. But you may perhaps mean what is correct: fullscap or foolscap - and why is it so called?
It is foolscap. It is called foolscap because, in days gone by, there used to be a 'water mark' on the paper which could be seen if the paper was held up to the light. The mark was the shape of a dunce's cap - or fool's cap.

Answer 2

Foolscap Folio (commonly contracted to foolscap or folio) is paper cut to the size of 8½ × 13½ inches (216 × 342 mm). This was a traditional paper size used in Europe and the British Commonwealth, before the adoption of modern international paper sizes there. It remains a common size for ring binders/lever arch files containing A4 paper (the most common standard size outside the United States), because it offers greater protection to the edge of the pages than an A4 binder.

Recently it has met more widespread use in some circles in the United States, where the term is applied to any paper measuring about 8½ × 13 inches (216 × 330 mm) - not necessarily the original 8½ × 13½ inches paper size.

A full foolscap paper sheet is 17 x 13½ inches (432 × 342 mm) in size, and a folio sheet of any type is simply half the standard sheet size.

Answer 3

Foolscap is a type of cheap writing paper.