<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.chinwag.org/@mike" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mike</span></a></span> The distinction is, I believe, that the actual answer is "not". Preorder means ordering something which doesn't yet exist, and may in fact never exist.</p>