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Elizabeth
Hi! Which variant is more correct and commonly used: time will tell or time will show?
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Both are correct. "Time will tell" is the more commonly used expression. It just sounds better, maybe because of the two t's.
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As a native speaker (from Scotland), I rarely hear/read 'time will show', So I have the feeling 'time will tell' is a lot more common. I double checked with Ngram Viewer and it came back pretty much as I expected:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=time+will+tell%2C+time+will+show&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3
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I think 'time will tell' is more correct. I'm not a native speaker, but I read it in my English books written by a native speaker
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