The question of untill, 'til and til

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 Vivian Cook

Till has been a separate word from until for many centuries; hence it is odd to spell it with an apostrophe 'till and/or a single l til/'til.

  Countdown 'Til            
       Christmas!
Month's 'Til Christmas
Days 'Til Christmas
Hours 'Til Christmas
Minutes 'Til Christmas
Seconds 'Til Christmas

Scissor sharp script will you you laughing til' your short back and sides split. TOTAL FILM
We'll Work 'Til Jesus Comes - Cassette
Paramount Studios presents 'Til There Was You (1997)

   

Frequency of different forms in English
 

British National Corpus

Google

until

93.8

93

till

6.0

3.81

til/'til

0.1

3.7

Sample size 

31976

57,730,000

Note: it is almost impossible to eliminate the Scandinavian word til from the Google scores, hence overestimating it considerably