speeling?

[kirk1690]

until or untill ?

[Sir John Luke]

'Until' or 'till'

[Kymmy]

Until

[Halcyon]

until

[Delta Whiskey]

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/until

Well now with any number of free spell checkers plugins available for IE and FF and the PM facility available at this siteI'm wondering why we have a thread dedicated to the spelling of one word?

[Caspar]

Originally Posted by Maggy J

Well now with any number of free spell checkers plugins available for IE and FF and the PM facility available at this siteI'm wondering why we have a thread dedicated to the spelling of one word?

I agree, but maybe some CF members aren't as confident in spelling or googling as you are? So, in time of need they turn to the community they're in and depend upon for many things including, it seems, spelling support.

[Sir John Luke]

Maybe we could broaden the discussion to cover - "Why 'until', but 'till'?

[lucy7]

Just one L.

I liked the link that Chris did about ..... lose and loose.....if i could link stuff I would do it here!

[joglynne]

I use both until and 'till but thought I would have a look on the web and found the following usage guideline in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

till /t{I}l/ conj., prep., noun, verb
> conj., prep. = until: We’re open till 6 o’clock. * Can’t you wait till we get home? * Just wait till you see it. It’s great. help Till is generally felt to be more informal than until and is used much less often in writing. At the beginning of a sentence, until is usually used.

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©Oxford University Press, 2005.

Originally Posted by Caspar

I agree, but maybe some CF members aren't as confident in spelling or googling as you are? So, in time of need they turn to the community they're in and depend upon for many things including, it seems, spelling support.

But then we may well end up with several short threads just asking for spelling help?I know this is a help site but that would just become ridiculous and extremely untidy
Now if we can perhaps keep all the spelling inquiries to this one thread as lucy suggested maybe I can see reason.

[rogerdraig]

i might like that lol my spelling can be so bad even the on-line spell checkers and built-in ones give up on even deciding what word i meant often

Originally Posted by rogermevans

i might like that lol my spelling can be so bad even the on-line spell checkers and built-in ones give up on even deciding what word i meant often

You just take your time buddy
But for the love of the English language, please don't revert to text speak.

[kirk1690]

Originally Posted by xocemp

You just take your time buddy
But for the love of the English language, please don't revert to text speak.

I wasn't asking for spelling help I was just wondering how other people thought this word was spelt , until untill , it is the first one but the second one just looks right or does it.

You seem to have mistaken that I have quoted you when adding a reply to rogermevans