[split] The Nothing

[milo]

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

To be clearer: Milo wasn't saying they weren't acceptable to an appreciable segment of
the great unwashed, he was expressing his own personal preferences (and ones that,
possessing superior linguistic sensibilities as well, I agree with).

But, as one possessing superior linguistic sensibilities, I can't help but point out that " till " is not
a contraction of "until". " Till* " is its very own word, predates "until" by a few hundred years, and is
quite probably the word from which "until" descended.

As sincere as ever,
Ray


*And, as I've said previously:

And as for 'till', yes, I try to avoid homonyms as they add confusion and
lend themselves too easily to doggerel:

He'll till the earth, his plow the devil's claw;
He'll till the earth, he'll till it till it's raw.

He'll till the earth, he'll till it to its core;
He'll till the earth till it will till no more.

I will be replacing the 'till' that I just used in a poem draft with 'til' to go with the flow then. Thanks Ray and Milo!

I read a line in a poem yesterday something like:

"we will . . . blah blah blah . . till the sun . . "

and i couldn't help thinking, "till the sun?  It's a little warm up there for farming"