RE: In love with a word

["Kevin Amery" <kevin -dot- amery -at- sympatico -dot- ca>]

Exactly--it's the sort of thing I might use informally, but wouldn't use
formally. As the definition you quoted said, it's a nonstandard usage today
(hence my jump into ham-handed Shakespearean lingo, which is the closest I
can get to Middle-English on the spur of the moment :-)

Until next time....
 
Kevin Amery


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Sent: January 6, 2006 9:56 AM
To: John Cook
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Subject: Re: In love with a word

John Cook wrote:
> On 1/5/06, Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net> wrote:
> 
>>And, by the way...
>>
>>"Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie"
>>
>>"Till We Meet Again"
>>
>>"till the cows come home"
>>
>>etc.
> 
> 
> All great examples, none of which I would use in technical writing.  ; 
> )
> 
>

Again, I was just trying to correct the impression that the word is somehow
nonstandard English. But, now that you raise the point, I've written
technical documents for internal audiences with a sense of humor, and I can
easily imagine writing "Caution: Don't click Next yet, or you'll be waiting
till the cow come home" in that sort of situation, or closing part one of a
two-part procedure that has a reboot in the middle of it with "till we meet
again." Would I put either of these in a user manual for distribution with a
product? No.

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