Is the word ‘till’ to mean a cash register used in the US?
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Is ‘till’ used in the US
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Is ‘till’ used in the US
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I knew the word but never used it or heard it use until I met my British husband. Even when I worked at places with a cash register, I never heard anyone call it a till. So I would say no, we just call it a cash register or a register.
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Thank you, it explains the confusion in yesterday’s book of the day.
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No, as far as I know, the term is only used in the United Kingdom and in those countries that were once its colonies, the terms obviously associated with their English. Isn’t "cashbox" also used in US English?
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Yes, cash box is a term we use as well but it's different from a cash register. I assumed it was a term used here as the local coffee shop here in the town in RoI I'm living in uses one.
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The term 'til is short for until. It is used in poetry and informal writing. Till (no apostrophe) is a cash register / cashbox.
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And the process of soil preparation.Shawna-Key2018 wrote: ↑06 Apr 2018, 00:15 The term 'til is short for until. It is used in poetry and informal writing. Till (no apostrophe) is a cash register / cashbox.
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Yes, one can till the soil. Thanks! I didn't think of that definition.
