Richard Kettlewell wrote:

Laurie Brown writes:

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Richard Kettlewell wrote:

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Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com writes:

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Hi, Ian: my pleasure. "Passim" is old-fashioned shorthand (Latin, actually) for "in the past" or "previous/ly". It means: look in the archives!

It means "here and there" or "throughout", nothing to do with the past.

Granted that's its literal translation, but one would hardly archive something that hasn't been written yet. "ALUG passim" can only mean to look for something in the past.

It's the definition given in English dictionaries as well as English-Latin ones. "<foo> passim" to me implies multiple occurrences, throughout <foo>, but "previously" or "in the past" might only refer to a single occurrence.

Granted. Luckily in this case, there are several occurrences in old ALUG stiff!

Cheers, Laurie.