This is an Aller's English Podcast episode 1750, evolving English until versus till versus till.

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English evolves today, learn a surprising fact about the word until and get four phrases about how to use until and till in a catchy and relevant way in English.

Hey there, Aubrey. How's it going today?

I'm great. How are you? What's up with you? What's up with me? What's up with me?

What's shaking as I like to say? What's shaking? Oh, not much. Did I just see your puppy behind you?

Yeah, this is on video. I think I saw him walk by. He's too now. He's too now, which is great. He's still a puppy anymore.

That went fast, but he's still got the heart of a puppy. He really does. He just wants to play all day. He sees a dog. He's like, let's play and he goes nuts. It's just so cute. Yeah.

I love that. That's actually really fun. Do you take him to like a dog park pretty often to play with other dogs? We do. We do that a lot. We just did that last night. We took him there.

He went around and they were all just very bouncy dogs. They were having so much fun. It's adorable. It is the best thing.

It makes it a lot easier to meet people, right? When if you have a kid or a dog, I feel like it's easier to approach other adults and then talk about the dog or the kid. That's very true. That's very true. I love it. I love it. What's going on in your world today?

Yeah. Well, my kids are in school, so I'm getting a lot done. I'm very excited to be on the mic with you. We had a really interesting question. I was just letting Lindsay know that I actually learned kind of something researching a little bit for this question, because English is evolving, you guys.

Words change. The dictionary is updated constantly to match more how we're using words. Yes. Which I always say don't correct anyone's grammar, because for all you know, it's changed. The dictionary has been updated and it's different from what you learned maybe from a textbook.

Yeah, that can happen sometimes. Absolutely. And I really do believe like we know that's part of all our English is kind of concept or vision is that language is dynamic. It does change.

There are certain people that believe that language is static and that it doesn't change and that it should be preserved, but preserved back to what right if you're going to go that route.

Should we be speaking like Shakespeare or what right old English. Yeah. So you like to go with reality and reality is that it's always changing. Yeah, exactly right. And this we're talking about until and till today.

Okay. And it has it has changed. So you've likely heard native English speakers use till in multiple contexts. So today we're going to break down how we use this and share ways that you can use it to build connections while answering a very insightful listener question.

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