Talk:through until

RFD discussion: July 2014

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through until

Looks SOP to me. Apparently just created for the sake of a Norwegian translation. --Type56op9 (talk) 08:42, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Is the (redlinked) Norwegian translation itself not SoP? DCDuring TALK 11:22, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Is it even used? Can we have an example sentence? I don't understand this collocation at all. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 14:36, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

This looks like a mistake to me. A quick Google Books search reveals only coincidental cases of "through" being a part of a preceding phrasal verb. --WikiTiki89 15:26, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Here's a citation:

"The army band played through until almost three, then a man got onto the front of the steps and announced through a big megaphone mounted on a metal stand that the spelling contestants were to come to the back of the bandshell. (link)

Is 'through until' a single unit in this citation? I would say no it's not. Renard Migrant (talk) 21:23, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

It is not. Through has an adverbial sense meaning something like "continuously" or "for the entire (remaining) time". Until looks like a simple preposition in the PP until almost three. DCDuring TALK 01:43, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Deleted.​—msh210℠ (talk) 05:32, 24 July 2014 (UTC)