Comments on: Last Call — Dave Van Ronk http://digital-dharma.net The Middle Path, One Day At A Time Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:07:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ozzie Maland http://digital-dharma.net/addiction/lastcall/#comment-55331 Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:33:44 +0000 http://digitalzen.wordpress.com/addiction/lastcall/#comment-55331 The version of this song in _When the Sacred Ginmill Closes_ by Lawrence Block has the line, “till opening tomorrow,” instead of “’til opening tomorrow” as set out here. The present version is standard American English and Block’s is not — but Block is spot on in the UK and I think American English simply has this standard wrong. Great English poetry and literature for hundreds of years has had this “till,” and a great deal of published American literature has it also. Time for a change, IMO.

Thanks. I’ll bring it up at the next meeting of Nitpickers Anonymous.

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