This week I heard some people use “popular” and “famous” interchangeably. There are lots of overlaps, certainly — but they don’t mean exactly the same thing.
Category: usage
What, the L?
I used to wonder why we spelled “till” with two Ls when there’s only one L in “until.” Turns out “till” isn’t actually a quirky shortening of “until”; it beats “until” to the punch by about three centuries. Whoops.