Flag "sooner than later" - suggest "sooner rather than later" and "sooner or later"

[hippietrail]

Description

• Using this instead of "sooner rather than later" has been common mistake among some native English speakers for a couple of generations.
• Using it instead of "sooner or later" I wasn't aware of until I started looking for examples for the first case. It seems to be recent and made by non-native speakers.

Resources

• 1 English StackExchange
• 1 English StackExchange
• 1 WordReference
• 1 Linguix
• 2 Reddit
• 2 Reddit

Examples

For "sooner rather than later"

• ... but in general we should fix this sooner than later.
• we'd very much like to be able to use Amazon Linux 2022 sooner than later.
• it's a good idea to update these sooner than later as they'll be removed in a future version.

For "sooner or later"

• Sooner than later you'll see a live version on my site, so keep watch for it.
• Still, you'll run into all of these sooner than later so it's important to know about them.
• and remember to save often, because Bintracker will crash sooner than later at this point in its development.

In fact some of those in the first list may belong in the second list. Maybe the "message" should try to guide the user. The first means "as soon as possible" or "at the earliest possible convenience" while the second means "At some point when we get around to it" or "At some point you will encounter this"...