all being well

[emsr2d2]

In a BrE email, I would have put the phrase at the beginning of the sentence and I think I would have used it in a slightly different way.

Everything is ready to be sent out. All being well, all staff will have the email by the end of today.

[BobK]

Well, there you go! Go ahead and use it in BrE business e-mails, but not in American ones.
(Here we'd say "God willin' and the creeks don't rise.")

(Well, not really, thought I have on e-mails to people at work that I have a friendly relatinoship with.)

'All being well' is an absolute phrase that can be tacked on either at the beginning or the end of a sentence (and sometimes in the middle - given the right punctuation! 'God willing' is another - a bit like inshallah, for people whose God is Allah. There are others - such as 'weather permitting' and 'other things being equal' (which is much neater in Latin: ceteris paribus).


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[emsr2d2]

'All being well' is an absolute phrase that can be tacked on either at the beginning or the end of a sentence (and sometimes in the middle - given the right punctuation! 'God willing' is another - a bit like inshallah, for people whose God is Allah. There are others - such as 'weather permitting' and 'other things being equal' (which is much neater in Latin: ceteris paribus).


b

I was about to start another message with "In BrE, that would be ..." and then I realised that BobK is a BrE speaker! I've never heard or used "Other things being equal ...", only "All things being equal ..."

[BobK]

Yours is probably the one most used. The 'other things...' version came to mind because of ceteris (as in 'etcetera').

b