On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Ed Murphy wrote:
> Goethe wrote:
>
>> f. The Speaker has only monthly tasks (assigning Prerogatives). So it
>> at best has low priority. Further, the Speaker publishes no report
>> (so R2143 has no effect) and it is not elected (R2217). So, in fact,
>> there is no effective priority to its tasks. So in these terms, it
>> either has "low" or "lower than low" priority. Since prerogatives are
>> monthly, I would tend towards "low" so as not to multiply categories.
>
> Gratuituous: Due to historical importance and the Honors List, it might
> be medium. But yes, it's not high.
The definitions of priority are pretty much ranked-list linear ("priority:
root prior") or I'd put it on its own axis (e.g. Historical-priority,
Royal-priority). -G.
