"**The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing**. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralise the term and start talking about priorities" --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[priorities]], [[essentialism]], [[semantic-creep]] **Source** -- [[202410111219 - B - Essentialism]]