"Till Death Do They Part"?

[Ann Burlingham]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> At 7/16/2010 09:37 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>>What's wrong with "till"?  Dictionaries love it.
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> I'm not a dictionary, I don't have to love it (without an apostrophe).

I've never had a problem using "till" to replace "until."

-Ann, till the cows come home

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