Is there any difference between “from…to” and “from…till” when someone’s talking about time? E.g. “The pharmacy is open from 9 till/to 8”
If you’re dealing with time, the correct preposition is till. If it’s for distance, then the correct preposition is to.
So remember:
time = till
location = to
This is some useful info.
I have heard so many guys using ‘from…to’, when they have to deal with time.
Thanks for the question & clarification.
OxfordBlues, thank you.
Sajumon
I have heard so many guys using ‘from…to’, when they have to deal with time.
Yeah, the same thing here.))
It’s the result of a linguistic principle called reanalysis (to analyze again). This is when people hear something that sounds similar to something else and assume that’s what it is (like singing a song and years later finding out the words are something totally different).
If you say till very quickly it can sound like to.
A quarter till five > a quarter t’ five > (people then assume) a quarter to five
This is also how we got our word nickname. It was originally an eckname (a corner name) but with people saying it quickly they heard ‘a neckname’ instead of ‘an eckname’ and eventually this became ‘a nickname’.
Never heard of such a phenomenon. Thanks again for explaining.