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Re: [perl #122570] PATCH: perlre.pod amendments

From: Karl Williamson <pub...@khwilliamson.com>
Wed, 20 Aug 2014 21:05:36 -0600
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.

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