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New South Dakota law allows voters to challenge other voters' citizenship (southdakotasearchlight.com)

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Not proper but it scans as "wait till", as "til", "till", and "until" are interchangeable in common English, "till" being a somewhat archaic but still often used version.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Interesting

The preposition till is ubiquitous in informal register of modern English; nonetheless, in formal register it is often replaced with until or to, except in some varieties, such as Indian English. This predisposition is likely influenced by the widespread misapprehension that till is a clipping of until, which it is not (until being an enhanced form of till). The spelling 'til, itself also deprecated by some writers, was born of that same misapprehension.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/till

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

Til/Till is used quite a bit below the Mason Dixon line on the Eastern coast of the US, often related to time. Wait'll is super prevalent there in speech.

[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

It’s a fairly common. I think YingYang Twins used it in a popular song. “Wait’ll you see this dick”