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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I used to hear the marriage vow this way.
i love sabby till death do its part hopefully that wont be any time some. ...It’s No Longer “Til Death Do Its Part”. More older couples are seeking divorce.
www.blinkx.com/videos/%2527Til+Death
Scrape away the veneer and what’s left is a guy madly in love with the art of musical performance, someone who, for better or worse, till death do its part, ...
www.iowasource.com/arts/music_1105.htm
No midlife crisis, no 7-year itch, or ‘death do its part’ ole’ boy Aftab rendered his marriage null and void without even being conscious. ...
indyinfidel.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_archive.html
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I am somewhat surprised that we haven’t discussed the variant “till death do we part” which seems to be standard for some. (It is used in a popular song, for instance.) It is doubtless consciously done as non-standard by some but probably is standard for many.
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There is a pretty good discussion of it at https://english.stackexchange.com/quest … do-we-part .
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Eggcornishly it makes sense if taken to mean “we will not part till death”, i.e. “we will part only at death” (a reading that makes better sense to me than it apparently does to some). The reading “we part now but will be reunited at death” is a contra/onym or whatever-you-call-it opposite. For many it is probably just the nominative/accusative mixup where any “us/me/him/her/etc.”, especially in archaic language contexts, is likely to be hypercorrected into “we/I/he/she/etc.” (“She said it to he and I”, and so fourth.)
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2023-12-20 08:03:04)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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