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Semie Posted 22 years ago
Grammar

Till & Until

What's the difference? I'm totally confused.
  

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Hi Semie, They mean the same. According to the Cambridge Dictionary until preposition, conjunction (ALSO till) 1 up to (the time that): I was up until three o'clock trying to get it finished! Hadn't we better wait until Antony's here?

— Learner

  • Hi Semie, They mean the same.
  • According to the Cambridge Dictionary until preposition, conjunction (ALSO till) 1 up to (the time that): I was up until three o'clock trying to get it finished!
  • Hadn't we better wait until Antony's here?
  • 2 not until not before a particular time or event: We didn't eat till past midnight.
  • Once he starts a decorating job he won't stop until it's finished.
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Hi Semie,

They mean the same.

According to the Cambridge Dictionary

until Emotion: time preposition, conjunction
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Thanks, learner.
It does help!
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I was wondering, is there any casual connotation in till?
Thank you,
Didi
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Should till be spelled 'till?
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To complement my post:

Till is slightly more informal. When used at the beginning of a sentence, we would usually use until:

Until they arrived, everything was fine. (NOT Till they arrived …)

To check the "apostrophe issue", I found this at http://www.wsu.edu:

Since it looks like an abbrevia
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I used the word "til" on my daughter's birthday party invitations...my 8 year old caught the spelling and made fun of me. Why was I brought up or thinking this was the proper way to spell it? I remember back in the day of winning all the spelling "bees" or b's. Is alzheimer's slowly coming on?
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Don't feel bad. I always thought it was spelled that way until I came to this forum. I though "till" was what you put the money in or what you did to a field. Like many, I thought 'til was a shorted form of until. I'm still getting used to using till.

(And to the person who asked where the forum gurus go to ask, here's one example. In this case, I used the dictionary!)
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