13 Oct
2004
13 Oct
'04
21:59
On Wednesday, 13 October 2004 23.54, Philipp Thomas wrote:
James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> [Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:09:57 -0400]:
How does one "pre-order"? Either you ordered it, or you didn't.
Sigh, it's just a another case of germish. The German term is Vorbestellung for which a correct English term would have been 'advance booking', as http://dict.leo.org will show.
No, preorder is perfectly fine English, it's not even a new construct, it's known since at least the 19th century, to mean "to order to arrange beforehand, to foreordain"