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They have identical meaning. Before long is poetic (and maybe slightly archaic). I imagine my grandfather saying it. It can be abbreviated 'ere long to be ... EnglishLanguageLearnersStackExchangeisaquestionandanswersiteforspeakersofotherlanguageslearningEnglish.Itonlytakesaminutetosignup. Signuptojointhiscommunity Anybodycanaskaquestion Anybodycananswer Thebestanswersarevotedupandrisetothetop Home Public Questions Tags Users Unanswered Teams StackOverflowforTeams –Collaborateandshareknowledgewithaprivategroup. CreateafreeTeam WhatisTeams? Teams CreatefreeTeam Teams Q&Aforwork Connectandshareknowledgewithinasinglelocationthatisstructuredandeasytosearch. Learnmore Beforelongvssoon AskQuestion Asked 7years,3monthsago Active 7years,3monthsago Viewed 3ktimes 0 Thesetwowordshavethesimiliarmeaninginmynativelanguage.Isthereactualdifferencebetweenthem?Forinstance: It'sgoingtosnowbeforelong. and It'sgoingtosnowsoon I'mnotsureinthelatterexampleatall. word-meaning Share Improvethisquestion Follow askedAug9'14at4:23 DmitriiBundinDmitriiBundin 4,7791515goldbadges5656silverbadges111111bronzebadges 1 1 Theyareprettymuchidenticalinmeaning. – Jim Aug9'14at4:39 Addacomment  |  1Answer 1 Active Oldest Votes 1 Theyhaveidenticalmeaning.Beforelongispoetic(andmaybeslightlyarchaic).Iimaginemygrandfathersayingit.Itcanbeabbreviated'erelongtobeevenmorepoetic. Shakespeare's73rdsonnetends: Thisthouperceiv'st,whichmakesthylovemorestrong, Tolovethatwell,whichthoumustleaveerelong. Soincommonusage,I'dstickwithsoon. Share Improvethisanswer Follow editedJun16'20at9:11 CommunityBot 1 answeredAug9'14at4:46 pabopabo 30211silverbadge44bronzebadges 1 But"beforeyaknowit"isstillquitecommon. – Jim Aug9'14at20:37 Addacomment  |  Youmustlogintoanswerthisquestion. Nottheansweryou'relookingfor?Browseotherquestionstaggedword-meaning. TheOverflowBlog CheckouttheStackExchangesitesthatturned10yearsoldinQ4 FeaturedonMeta Reducingtheweightofourfooter UpcomingresponsiveActivitypage 2021CommunityModeratorElectionResults-V2 Related 0 "Thepointof"vs"thesenseof" 3 "oppose"and"beopposed".Whatisthedifference? 4 What'sthedifferencebetweeninspireandenlighten? 0 Whatisthedifferencebetweena"vicarofbrayperson"anda"fairweatherfriend"? 23 Dayvs24hday? 0 Whatisthedifferencebetweendeemandconsider? 3 Differencebetween"idiot"and"dummy"? 1 “Hopeful”,“Promising”and“Hope-giving” HotNetworkQuestions Howistheroofonthisbridgetownformed? WaystosenddatawithCRCvalidation Isitokaytowashyourhandsinthekitchensinkwashwater(withthedishes)? Bashscriptfileextension Switchtogroundusingtransistor IsitpossibletouseOPENROWSETtoimportfixedwidthUTF8encodedfiles? Wronginauguralmoveingame2ofCarlsen-Nepomniachtchi Whataretheadvantagesofkeepingtheidentityofasecondsecret? HowcanIstopsinkfittingfromleaking? Magicball8program ShouldbugsfoundbyexploratorytestmethodsbetakenagainstQA? Whatisthesimplestwaytoinvertasignalwithjustonejumper? Whythepearsoncorrelationp-valuedoesn'tfullycorrespondtoCIinR? Legalrequirementtopublishlandsaleprices? HasJMSeverdetailedtheoriginofthenameorterm“Babylon5”usedinhisworks? strcat_new()function,notpresentinstandardClibrary WhatdoesitmeanforBillGatestohaveanincomeof$0dollars?Whatwordwouldhavebeenmoreappropriatethan"income"is? Valuingcodingoverphysics,howcanIaddressthisinapplications? Whatisthedifferencebetween/liband/usr/liband/var/lib? Whereisthecityscapeinthisrecentphoto,probablyinMalaysia? "Waityourturn!" What'sthemostfunwaytomakeaSnowmaninBlender?[winterchallenge]❄︎❄︎❄︎ Howtoshortenthepythoncode? Whatisgoingoninandbelowayelloworbluegasflame? morehotquestions Questionfeed SubscribetoRSS Questionfeed TosubscribetothisRSSfeed,copyandpastethisURLintoyourRSSreader. Yourprivacy Byclicking“Acceptallcookies”,youagreeStackExchangecanstorecookiesonyourdeviceanddiscloseinformationinaccordancewithourCookiePolicy. Acceptallcookies Customizesettings