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 "But it will die" is perfectly correct and the standard word order. 
 Sometimes you invert the word order to make it more emphatic. That makes "but die it will" also correct. The unusual word order draws the attention of the reader/listener. 
 I didn't expect him to come, but come he did!  
 etc.</description></item><item><title>But die it will</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/ButDieItWill/zkphx/post.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:36:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:471203</guid><dc:creator>Rotter</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/ButDieItWill/zkphx/post.htm</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-471203.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes is travelling in a
Volga car along the Volga river to take a snapshot of life in Vladimir
Putin's Russia, as the presidential election looms. This is his second
piece, from the city of Nizhny Novgorod.  I am going to go out on a limb here and make a
prediction. Russia's indigenous car industry is finished. It may take
many more years to finally die, but die it will.
 
 The reason is simple - Russian cars are awful. 
  
 The worst car I have ever driven, by a long, long way,
is a Lada I had the misfortune to try out shortly after arriving in
Russia a year-and-a-half ago. I should have learned my lesson. But no.  
 Now I am preparing to depart on a 1,000-mile (1,609km)
road journey, in the...</description></item></channel></rss>