till
Beverly Flanigan
flanigan at OHIO.EDU
Fri Jul 20 17:59:24 UTC 2007
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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