User talk:Earthkwaque

Presently
Not that I have any beef with "currently" as an alternative, but since I'm a pedant: the OED at least records a reasonable history of "presently" meaning "at present": '' 3. a. At the present time; at this time, at present, now. Apparently avoided in literary use between the 17th and 20th centuries, but in regular use in most English dialects and by Scottish writers; revived in the 20th cent. in the U.S., subsequently in Britain and elsewhere. Regarded by some usage writers, esp. after the mid 20th cent., as erroneous or ambiguous.'' Their earliest quotation is from Chaucer, and they have a fair spread up to modern material. Pseudomonas(talk) 13:32, 16 May 2008 (UTC)