till

[Beverly Flanigan]

Excellent--confirms my random surveys!  And not an abbreviation of
"until"--good.

At 10:11 AM 7/20/2007, you wrote:
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>DARE's label for this in the sense "ten till four" will be "widespread
>except Northeast, Great Lakes."
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