On Sun, 13 May 2007, Finn Thain wrote:
On Sat, 12 May 2007, Kolbjørn Barmen wrote:
On Sat, 12 May 2007, Finn Thain wrote:
To answer your question, I find it easier to parse the original idiom,
"'til now". Your corruption, "until now", loses information available to
anyone who can recognise the idiom. Granted, this is not the worst example
of that effect...
It is either "till now" or "until now".
"'til" is just broken english.
Seems you are right that "till" is also an accepted abbreviation (I found
both in the Oxford American Dictionary). I suppose that there's no typo to
fix here.
Well, both "'till" and "'til" are broken. It is either "till" or "until".
The fix was valid.
"until" and "till" are _not_ the same word, "till" is not an abbreviation
of "until", it's actually quite the opposite. I suspect this is obivous
for most non-english germanic speakers I will guess. "Until" is in
norwegian "inntil", meaning "in to", and "till" is just english spelling
of our "til" (meaning "to").
The spelling of "until" should ofcourse be "in till". :)
I belive the Scots also say "unto".
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Kolbjørn Barmen
UNINETT Driftsenter
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