On 2015-08-14, Gilles Chehade <gil...@poolp.org> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 09:06:00AM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 03:21:56AM +0100, Larry Hynes wrote: >> > This is a minor quibble, and possibly a purely personal one, but >> > 'priorly' is not really in common usage. >> > >> > Index: smtpd.conf.5 >> > =================================================================== >> > RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/smtpd/smtpd.conf.5,v >> > retrieving revision 1.127 >> > diff -u -p -r1.127 smtpd.conf.5 >> > --- smtpd.conf.5 11 Aug 2015 21:57:24 -0000 1.127 >> > +++ smtpd.conf.5 13 Aug 2015 02:13:00 -0000 >> > @@ -635,7 +635,7 @@ able to establish an SMTP session. >> > .Ic secure >> > may be specified to provide both STARTTLS and SMTPS services. >> > Host certificates may be used for these connections, >> > -and must be priorly declared using the pki directive. >> > +and must be declared beforehand using the pki directive. >> > If >> > .Ic pki >> > is specified, >> > >> >> hmm. >> >> it's hard to gauge whether something is or is not in common usage in >> general. not in common usage for yourself, i'd suggest. >> >> i don;t know, but i'd guess that you're probably right that this form is >> less in use nowadays. it's not in my learner's dictionary (compiled >> according to word frequency). it is in oed marked as late 18th century >> origin. >> >> but whether to change it? >> >> - it's clear, as far as i'm concerned. >> - even if you've never heard the term, you'll understand it if you know >> "prior". >> - why demote words just because they're less in use? >> >> i say let author's prerogative stand (by which i mean i don;t plan to >> change this). >> > > I'm not really emotional about "priorly", I like "previously" better. > > I think the only reason for this choice was that I was tired, could not > recall "previously" and when priorly popped in my mind, look(1) told me > that it was a real word ;-) >
Being, as I am, comfortably ensconced in the 'anything but priorly' camp I would be very happy with 'previously'. :D
