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Til vs Tel - What's the difference?

til | tel |

As a conjunction til

is until, till.

As a preposition til

is until, till.

As an initialism TIL

is today I learned...

As a noun tel is

telegraph.

til

English

Alternative forms

* 'til

Conjunction

(English Conjunctions)
  • (nonstandard) until, till
  • {{quote-magazine
    , date= , year=c1390 , month= , first=Geoffry , last=Chaucer , author= , coauthors= , title=The Canterbury Tales , passage=He slepeth...Al nyght til the sonne gan aryse. }}
    {{quote-magazine
    , date= , year=2010 , month=May , first=James , last=Parker , author= , coauthors= , title=Revenge of the Wimps , volume=305 , issue=4 , page=38 , magazine=The Atlantic Monthly , publisher= , issn= citation , passage=EVEN IF YOU MAKE ME WRITE IN THIS EVERY DAY TIL THEY LET ME OUT OF HERE }}

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • (nonstandard) until, till
  • {{quote-book
    , year=1425 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Wycliffe , title=Wycliffe Bible , chapter=Ezekial 1:27 , url= , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page= , passage=Fro þe leendis]] of hym & aboue, & fro þe [[lende, leendis of him til beneþe I sa? þe licnesse of fier.}}
    {{quote-magazine
    , date= , year=2004 , month=Nov , first= , last= , author= , coauthors=Harper, Gary W. / Gannon, Christine / Watson, Susan E. / Catania, Joseph A. / Dolcini, M. Margaret , title=The Role of Close Friends in African American Adolescents' Dating and Sexual Behavior , volume=41 , issue=4 , page=351-362 , magazine=Journal of Sex Research , publisher= , issn= , url= , passage=I just don't know how to just come out in the blue and say it, so I just wait til it comes up... }}
    {{quote-magazine
    , date=Winter , year=2008 , month= , first=Michael , last=Copperman , author= , coauthors= , title=Gone , volume=39 , issue=3 , page=139-145 , magazine=Arkansas Review , publisher=Arkansas State University , issn= , url= , passage=Let him wander round and kids gone meddle him til he get to fighting again. }}
  • (archaic) ~ to : as far as; down to; up to, until
  • {{quote-book
    , year=1425 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Wycliffe , title=Wycliffe Bible , chapter=Ezekial 40:15 , url= , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page= , passage=He maad frountis by sixti cubitis ... and bifore the face of the ?ate that lastid til to the face of the porche of the ynner ?ate, fifti cubitis.}}

    tel

    English

    Etymology 1

    (en)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • telegraph
  • telegram
  • telephone
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hill or mound. (Used especially for land features in the Middle East and North Africa)