182: till Jun 8, 2015

There are a lot of abbreviated words in common speech;" 'cause" "gonna" are included among them: words that are not words of their own. "Till" is its own word, not just an abbreviation of "until". The reason that 'till' is not an abbreviation even though it appears to be is that it was a word before 'until' was, deriving from the Old English, 'til'. 'Until' is the combination of 'und' which means ‘as far as’ and the word 'til'.