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Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog 
Thanks for spreading the joy, Chris. ❤
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Welcome Colleen 😘😘😘
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Google’s N-Gram offers some sporadic recognition of “until the bell tolls,” but neither till nor ’til register any hits at all!
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MJM
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Google can’t cover everything – especially grammar Michael 😱
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Google may not have EVERYthing, but it can still be helpfu! See this:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Until+death+do+us+part%2Ctill+death+do+us+part%2C+%27til+death+do+us+part&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=5&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CUntil%20death%20do%20us%20part%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ctill%20death%20do%20us%20part%3B%2Cc0
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MJM
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N’grams CAN be deceptive though if you’re not careful. The use of Until in “death do us part” increased by 500% between 1963 and 2008. The use of Till increased by only 300%! (The trick there is to redo the graph without “Until” so that the “Till” increase shows more clearly.)
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