A Pet Peeve for Your Monday Morning

In a world where there's so many things that piss me off, let's take a little side trip down Pet Peeve Lane to talk about something that pisses me off without any global or societal ramifications...

TILL.

Now, it's a perfectly valid word on its own.  You can till a field, for instance.  Or you can till your garden.

But when it's used as a contraction for the word UNTIL, it totally pisses me off.  Sure sure, the dictionaries have caved and said TILL is now considered a proper way to convey UNTIL.  Except it's not. It's totally not.  And I don't care if it's become accepted.  It's wrong.

When you take letters off a word to shorten it, it becomes a contraction and it needs an apostrophe.  UNTIL would then become 'TIL.  Not TILL. 

Where's the apostrophe? 

You might just as well say ISNT is okay in place of IS NOT.  Or IVE works instead of I'VE.  Or WELL is peachy when you're saying WE WILL.  That last one makes it kinda confusing, don't it?  Because WELL is a word that means something totally different.  Like...

TILL

And where the hell did the extra L come from?  There's no rule anywhere that says when you take two letters off the front of UNTIL, you add a extra L at the end.  For what?  Balance?

Might as well make 'TIS into TISS.  Remove a letter from the front, add an extra letter at the end.  Right?

Bah and feh.

So, I'll keep using 'TIL when I want to shorten UNTIL.  And I'll keep getting irritated when I see others using TILL.  Because it makes no sense.

Some days, I wish that was the only irritating, nonsensical thing in my life.  But it's not.  You do not want to know what I could've ranted about this morning. 

Your turn.  What non global or societal thing could you rant about this morning?  Have at it.