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

Subject: Re: [CE-L] USAGE: alright all right
From: Lou Quillio <public -at- quillio -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:31:54 -0400

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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