Michael Everson scripsit:

> Actually, it is the preface. :-)

Funny, isn't it, that the Latin-based "preface" is English of several
centuries' standing, whereas "foreword", apparently quite Saxon, is
in fact a calque of German Vorwort and was still being condemned by
purists in the latter part of the 20th century.

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