Is The Soonest out of the series?
I’m curious to know if it is possible for me to say, “I’ll get back to you at your soonest opportunity ” or should I say “I’ll get back to you at THE soonest opportunity”?
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I agree with Ash–use “earliest”, as in “earliest opportunity”. In the days before phones were still comparatively rare, people sent telegrams, not emails. Telegraph companies (e.g. UK Telecom) which were established in Britain between 1894 and 1982. Why is the amount of letters so low, people want to write “soonest” (7 letters) rather than “at the earliest opportunity” (24 letters and 3 spaces). Now that many people think about this, we’ll write “soonest” (as opposed to “as soon as possible”. How did the French call the telecommen “telegraphese”? Is Victor Hugo using the television network to get the number of characters in his book “sold out”? When the publishers cabled Hugo back the one character novel I was writing in 2014, they didn’t reprint the concept. What sort of publicity would have hit the publisher? What
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Whichever you feel most comfortable with but I believe “earliest” rather than “soonest” to be more grammatically correct. Is it ok to tell a friend you will be getting her back a day or so after?
