Ah, Webster – the guy who rewrote American and the Dictionary that first equated Figurative with Literal.
It’s logically unsound.
Remembering that Dictionaries don’t tell you what’s right, only what’s popular at best, and that Webster is about the worst there, It’s not a great reference. And if we trusted the mob to decide how to spell and pronounce words, you and I would be MUCH better at the head-wobble – popularity as a mechanism for evolution would have refactored a LOT of pronunciation and spelling a while ago.
The abbreviation of “until” is " 'til ". I know this because it’s an abbreviation, and “until” doesn’t have two Ls.
There are plenty of non-dictionary linguistic sources out there that corroborate, but I’m not going to waste my time spoon feeding them to you when clearly you’re incapable of admitting when you’re wrong. “Till” is not an abbreviation. You made that assertion up all on your own. And I’m certainly not going to trust someone who doesn’t even know when it’s proper to capitalize words.
Are you for real?
If 95% of the population decided that they really liked a certain new spelling or pronunciation of a word, are they not allowed to use it because a bunch of dead people from the previous century wouldn’t approve?
The point of language is to understand each other, not to be eternally unchanging.
And to be honest english could really use a spelling reform.
Ah, Webster – the guy who rewrote American and the Dictionary that first equated Figurative with Literal.
It’s logically unsound.
Remembering that Dictionaries don’t tell you what’s right, only what’s popular at best, and that Webster is about the worst there, It’s not a great reference. And if we trusted the mob to decide how to spell and pronounce words, you and I would be MUCH better at the head-wobble – popularity as a mechanism for evolution would have refactored a LOT of pronunciation and spelling a while ago.
The abbreviation of “until” is " 'til ". I know this because it’s an abbreviation, and “until” doesn’t have two Ls.
Here’s Grammar.com saying the same: https://www.grammar.com/usage_and_difference:_till,_until,_'til (you have to copy/paste the entire link - Lemmy is fighting me on the URL format).
There are plenty of non-dictionary linguistic sources out there that corroborate, but I’m not going to waste my time spoon feeding them to you when clearly you’re incapable of admitting when you’re wrong. “Till” is not an abbreviation. You made that assertion up all on your own. And I’m certainly not going to trust someone who doesn’t even know when it’s proper to capitalize words.
Are you for real? If 95% of the population decided that they really liked a certain new spelling or pronunciation of a word, are they not allowed to use it because a bunch of dead people from the previous century wouldn’t approve? The point of language is to understand each other, not to be eternally unchanging. And to be honest english could really use a spelling reform.
jesus christ