Friday May 25th 2012
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The Economist's consistent avoidance of the split infinitive interests me in particular. No other publication I know of pays any mind at all to this somewhat obscure rule, violation of which I have (for better or worse) adopted as a personal pet peve of mine.
"It will be back soon." was written on Jul 29, 2011. So, I'm just wondering, how soon is soon?