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Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
30-Oct-09 - 03:25 PM
Thread Name: BS: American English usages taking over Brit
Subject: RE: BS: American English usages taking over Brit

Maybe so - but if so, it's not modern bureaucracy. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary dates that sense ("In the space of time that immediately follows, in a little while, before long, shortly") as 1566...