Re: [CE-L] USAGE: alright all right

[Lou Quillio <public -at- quillio -dot- com>]

Jones, Donna wrote:
> Alright, alot, and till for until. [shudder] Stuff that makes me cringe!

"Till" bothered me plenty until I learned (maybe last year) that
it's not a cheap clipping of "until", and in fact pre-dates it.
Until derives from till.  Seems like something I should've known,
but didn't.  Dope.

"'Til" is recent, and useful in bad poetry.

LQ
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