"until" vs "before" or "to" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> Just to add a smidge of data, I have a rather cool Frank
> Gehry watch (see
> http://www.fossil.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=1
8233&itemType=PRODUCT&iMainCat=961&iSubCat=981&iProductID=18233)
> that gives the time as, e.g., "8 past 10" or "17 til 11"
> (right now it says "14 til midnight"). It presents it in an
> emulation of Gehry's handwriting. So it seems that Frank
> Gehry uses "til." However, though he's originally from
> Toronto (moved to California at 18), I'm not used to hearing
> "til" here at all -- "to" is the current local word.
> (I learned to use "of" when I lived in Boston and stopped
> just as readily when I moced back to Canada.)
>
If Gehry uses "until", the watch designers may have substituted "til"
for reasons of space.
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Caveats: NONE

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