It is available but again, archaic stilted and overly formal in most
situations. It's also a bit pretentious. That should deal with him! :-)
According to my Shorter OED, even Shakespeare wrote it with an apostrophe -
'Till - which suggests that it has alway been a contraction of until - and I've
seen 'til used in this way.
Leave it where it belongs - in poetry, preferably before the 19th Century.
Andrew Fildes
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On 12/03/2011, at 3:02 AM, SwissPace wrote:
>
> whilst recently correcting a swisscolleague at work on the use of till,
> i.e. you have until 10am rather than you have till 10am, he disputed my
> correction saying that they were interchangeable, it sounds so bad to me
> but sure enough in my oxford dictionary it confirms that they are in
> fact interchangeable, am I alone in thinking the use of till sounds
> terrible.
>
> IanW
> excuse my spelling mistakes in most of my postings of late, but I am
> having trouble to find time and often just rush my emails to get them
> posted to the list which when the alternative is that they will not, I
> think better - though you may disagree ;-)
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