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till or 'til
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I started a cross stitch project yesterday and it has a quote on it.
"Sleep till you're hungry, eat till your sleepy."
Is it just me, or should that be 'til? I'm sure the long version is "sleep until you're hungry", and because you're removing letters shouldn't it be 'til?
"Sleep till you're hungry, eat till your sleepy."
Is it just me, or should that be 'til? I'm sure the long version is "sleep until you're hungry", and because you're removing letters shouldn't it be 'til?
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Here you go, we're all correct LOL
Here you go, we're all correct LOL
Lol. Seems to be a bit of debate. It's possible that both version are correct, but I'm the sort of person who gets driven crazy by mistakes like that. If I stitch the quote the way it is and then put it on my wall, I might as well call the men in white coats now. I'm changing it. Thanks for your input everyone.
�Till', in the sense of �up to a certain point in time' is actually older than �until', both having been around for the past 700 years or so. Shakespeare used it: "Fight till the last gasp" (Henry VI) and Sir Walter Scott used it: "She doubted if the woman would last till morning" (St Ronan's). �Till' is certainly not an abbreviated form of �until'.
Today, �until' may be thought of as marginally more formal than �till' and is certainly more commonly used in writing. However, �till' is probably just as common in speech. It is, therefore, just nonsense to claim - as some do - that �till' is somehow wrong.
The actual abbreviation �til is just a 20th century affectation and of no real significance.
Today, �until' may be thought of as marginally more formal than �till' and is certainly more commonly used in writing. However, �till' is probably just as common in speech. It is, therefore, just nonsense to claim - as some do - that �till' is somehow wrong.
The actual abbreviation �til is just a 20th century affectation and of no real significance.
Trillipse, yes "feisty curves" is descriptive. :P
And I love the fact that when you were telling me that you make the same mistake, you made the mistake. Hehe.
"whatever your most prone to... "
Yogasun, the same thing happens to me regularly. I recently did a group project at uni and one of my partners was dyslexic. When he handed me his piece, it was all I could do to not pull out a pen there and then and start correcting it. It bugged me for weeks, and in the end I photocopied it and corrected it in secret.
And I love the fact that when you were telling me that you make the same mistake, you made the mistake. Hehe.
"whatever your most prone to... "
Yogasun, the same thing happens to me regularly. I recently did a group project at uni and one of my partners was dyslexic. When he handed me his piece, it was all I could do to not pull out a pen there and then and start correcting it. It bugged me for weeks, and in the end I photocopied it and corrected it in secret.