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21 мая 2016 г., 21:06
There’s an old pop song by The Smiths called ‘How Soon is Now?’ The writers of the song must have been even lazier than I am, because the answer is available in any etymological dictionary. Soon was the Anglo-Saxon word for now.
It’s just that after a thousand years of people saying ‘I’ll do that soon’, soon has ended up meaning what it does today.
