"Till" is colloquial, really, Ian. It sounds inelegant to me as well.
Chris
On 11 Mar 2011, at 16:02, SwissPace wrote:
> whilst recently correcting a swisscolleague at work on the use of till,
> i.e. you have until 10am rather than you have till 10am, he disputed my
> correction saying that they were interchangeable, it sounds so bad to me
> but sure enough in my oxford dictionary it confirms that they are in
> fact interchangeable, am I alone in thinking the use of till sounds
> terrible.
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