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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I see this mistake in print so much it is a pet peeve. Example: “No interest or payments TILL 2010.” The word is really a shortened form of ‘until.’ Till means something entirely different.
I haven’t spent much time on this site, but I attribute this common error to spell-check, phonetic spelling, and lazy/ignorant editors.
Is this an example of an eggcorn?
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“till” as an alternate version of “until” has been around since the twelfth century, according to my dictionary. I don’t think it’s technically wrong.
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I stand corrected. My unabridged says they are interchangeable, which I did not know. Yay! One less pet peeve.
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