ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

It's strange how words that you have used without thinking too much about them in the past,
suddenly raise doubts, although you have used them often enough.

'TILL' - as in - 'and worked each night till late' - is such a word, and quite legitimate according to my Oxford Dictionary.

It often seems a much better word in some circumstances than 'TO'.

It doesn't take much to amuse an idle mind, does it?

Terry

Can't see a problem, Terry. In your example I'd always use "till". Or "I worked until late."

Cheers
David

Hi David

The query came about because of a poem written a bit different than usual, where TILL crops up a couple of times.

I've used it often enough over the years without a second thought; it was just seeing it twice in the same poem that got me thinking.
And with the forum so quiet of late, I though I may as well ask the question, if only to try and stir up a bit of a discussion.

Regards and thanks

Terry

You will be a bloody stirrer till you die Terry


Bob

I see you've pinched my pet Word Bob

Terry