[split] The Nothing

[ChristopherSea]

The truly lazy person's " until " is not " 'til ", it's " til ". Not only can we
conserve our valuable energies by not typing the apostrophe; we can
effortlessly enjoy the thrashing about of energetic fools as they busy
themselves with incorrectly correcting the uncorrectable.

probably true, but I like to follow the contraction conventions set by can't, don't and won't. 

I think I read a line in someone's poem once that was something like:

the man worked till the earth was raw

which made me think 

"till the earth was raw" - that is terrible grammar
when he meant "'til the earth was raw"

I think you can see the difficulty of my situation.

Milo, I know you don't like Merriam-Webster's authority, but till, til and 'til are all acceptable contractions of until.