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Originally Posted By: zmjezhdwhat would
you say is the most correct thing to say, please?
Wait ( ) I fix breakfast.
Wait ( ) the mailman comes.
I'll have to stand ( ) the bus comes?
Well, tsuwm pretty much summed it up by citing the AHD4 usage note on until. Until and till are pretty much interchangeable. Probably the choice of one over the other has more to do with prosody (how the sentence scans in the metrical sense of the word) than which one is more correct. If I were editing some MS and I came across 'til though I would get out my red pen and circle it.
Thanks, I needed to get that clarified, and will watch
what I write from now on.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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