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Confusion reigning supreme here. Zmjezhd: what 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?

I am just looking for the most correct in sentences like
these samples - with regard to the till conversations we
are having.


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what 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.

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>If I were editing some MS and I came across ;til though I would get out my red pen and circle it.

I think jheem means 'til, here.

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I think jheem means 'til, here.

That I did; corrected, it has been.


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Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
what 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.


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TIL on the internet is acronym for..... Today I Learned.
How fitting.

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TIL TIL

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Originally Posted By: Candy
TIL on the internet is acronym for..... Today I Learned.
How fitting.


I need a list of all these acronyms, but probably would
not use it, I guess I just believe is saying without all
the abbreviating (well except for OK, and maybe a couple of
others).


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There's Internet Acronyms and, for the more mundane, Acronym Finder. I notice the former doesn't have TIL

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Hey great, thanks. I have it bookmarked. Just have to
train myself to use it now.


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