• RobotToaster@mander.xyz
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    Interesting

    The preposition till is ubiquitous in informal register of modern English; nonetheless, in formal register it is often replaced with until or to, except in some varieties, such as Indian English. This predisposition is likely influenced by the widespread misapprehension that till is a clipping of until, which it is not (until being an enhanced form of till). The spelling 'til, itself also deprecated by some writers, was born of that same misapprehension.

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/till

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      It’s a fairly common. I think YingYang Twins used it in a popular song. “Wait’ll you see this dick”

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      Til/Till is used quite a bit below the Mason Dixon line on the Eastern coast of the US, often related to time. Wait’ll is super prevalent there in speech.