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Subject:Re: Stress-relief editing on a Fri afternoon From:Karen Kay <karenk -at- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Sat, 20 Aug 1994 05:43:04 -0700
Robert E. Allen said:
> I changed
> every occurance of:
> "prior to" to "before"
But--I'm writing about software that works with other software, and
there are instructions for earlier versions and later versions, the
cutoff point being Version 3.0. I've been saying "versions of this
software prior to 3.0". "Before" sounds funny to me in this case.
