![]() Both of these words are acceptable you may send a text to your misbehaving child stating either “U R grounded till 4ever” or “U R grounded until 4ever.” One 'L' or Two? ![]() Until has been in use as both a preposition and a conjunction for almost as long. It has been used as a conjunction meaning "until" since the 12th century. Till has been in use in English since the 9th century the earliest sense of the word was the same as the preposition to. However, till is not a shortening of until. One reason for the confusion in this area is that many people assume that till is a misshapen abbreviation of until, a mistaken form in which the apprehensive spellers among us tack on an extra L at the end in order to make their word look a bit more balanced and give it some additional heft. It is still not as old as the use of 'till' to mean "until." 'Till' is Older Than 'Until' The Prague Astronomical Clock is over 605 years old.
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