benszymanski:
I am not sure this is correct (British) English
The most common belief is that
till is a shortened form of
until. But the opposite is true,
till as a word precedes
until by about 400 years.
Until is a compound of
till with the archaic Old Norse
und, as far as, which also survives in the archaic
unto. The first sense of
till was to, as it still can be, for example in Scottish dialect, and the modern sense of
till in standard English is always connected with time. The current position is that
until is the more common of the two words and is generally considered to be slightly more formal. It is also rather more likely to appear at the beginning of a sentence than is
till. But
till is perfectly good English. e.g. "Till Death Do Us Part". There’s another form of ‘til with preceding apostrophe, it’s informal version of
until. Spelling
'til without the preceding apostrophe is still regarded as wrong. E.g. “shop ’til you drop”.