Forum / As much as I despise "alot"

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    Matt Dennison
    Dec 10, 05:51am

    I just realized "never" came from "not ever."

    (but shouldn't the kids be writing "alittle" just to balance it out?)

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    Marcus Speh
    Dec 10, 09:02am

    ballmeans.

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    Matt Dennison
    Dec 10, 09:21am

    gnome sane?

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    James Lloyd Davis
    Dec 10, 11:54am

    When it comes to the use of language, the tainted liberality of colloquial speech v 'proper English,' one only has to ask the question, "What would Jane Austen do?"

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    Joani Reese
    Dec 10, 01:26pm

    As an English professor, I acknowledge that I've already lost the battle with alright, (well, most of the time anyway), but I have not abandoned the thankless task of making sure my students write a lot. I also force their little fingers to type that Oxford comma. They don't understand me.

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    Matt Dennison
    Dec 10, 02:59pm

    OMG (to coin a typer-friendly shorthand--or is that already in use?)

    In my second-grade spelling bee my so-called word was "all right." So I thought to myself, Alright, I can do that, and did, and was quickly sent back to my seat

    in shame...

    and learned the "all right" rule. But in the SECOND GRADE?!

    (but I never forgot)

    But what about "already"? Wouldn't that have been shortened from "all ready"? Why aren't second graders being tricked in public for *that* one?

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