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[jobbynext]

Hi! How are you? I hope you all are fine. I wonder if anyone of you could help me. Well I've got a doubt about these two mentioned words. Is there any differences between them?? When should I use each one?

Thank in advance!

[trueblue]

As written, till and until have two completely different meanings.

Till is a verb that is used to describe the process used to prepare a field for planting.

Until and 'till are interchangeable, however, the apostrophe must be used to indicate the missing letter.

Tom

[bud]

Tom, this question came up in here a few months ago. Someone mentioned that till is now considered as an acceptable casual form of until. The few online dictionaries that I checked incude it.

You may be happy to learn, as I was, that 'til is still OK, too!

So when used formally, Jobbynext, use until. Informally, you can use any of the three versions.

[advoca]

Bud is right.

And you can use till until the cows come home.