On 08/20/2014 07:14 PM, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> On Wednesday-201408-20, 21:05, Father Chrysostomos via RT wrote:>> Indeed, I use 'till' more often. It's fascinating how the trend is>> reversing, because 'until' gained in popularity partly because of the>> widespread and erroneous idea that 'till' was a colloquial shortened>> form of 'until', whereas it is actually the older form of the word!>> It's a Swedish plot.>> http://folkets-lexikon.csc.kth.se/folkets/folkets.en.html#lookup&till&1>
But don't forget Till Eulenspiegel and his pranks.
There is also to till one's field, etc. I prefer 'until'. It doesn't
have the ambiguities, and sounds better to me, a native American speaker.