For one, I don't. Or at least I try not to. So this is a new phenomenon to me, but my guess is improper use of spacebar. To my fellow us members. A lot and allot are two very different words.Captain Seafort wrote:Right, TR-116 time...
"Alot".Mark wrote:Having fought with ALOT of drunks in my time
Why does the US (and from what I've seen it's entirely US members who do this) combine the phrase "a lot" into a single word? I've seen it all over the forum and it's bugging me, so what gives?
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I try to type a lot, but sometimes I don't hit the spacebar, But yes, I think it's mostly that American's seem to be lazy.
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It's not a standard part of American English, just an informal spelling that some people use. Another example would be "alright" instead of "all right".Captain Seafort wrote:Why does the US (and from what I've seen it's entirely US members who do this) combine the phrase "a lot" into a single word? I've seen it all over the forum and it's bugging me, so what gives?
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I try and spell it 'a lot' and 'all right', although no reason why 'alot' and 'alright' couldn't become official words.
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"Alright" isn't too bad - allot has, as SG points out, a completely different meaning.
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Yeah, to parcel out, right?Captain Seafort wrote:"Alright" isn't too bad - allot has, as SG points out, a completely different meaning.
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RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Yeah, to parcel out, right?Captain Seafort wrote:"Alright" isn't too bad - allot has, as SG points out, a completely different meaning.
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The word "alright" and the phrase "all right" also have different meanings.Captain Seafort wrote:"Alright" isn't too bad - allot has, as SG points out, a completely different meaning.
I've never seen it until now, so I assumed it was just a missed tap on the space bar. If it is common, it's probably a similar colloquialism to the Irish use of the fabricated contraction "t'other." Bear in mind, the US is fairly large - what may be common vernacular for Tsu could be completely alien to me. For example, where I live the term "y'all" is specifically confined to urban, inner-city slang... but it's a common term in the South, and different parts of the South have different grammatical usages for it.Captain Seafort wrote:Why does the US (and from what I've seen it's entirely US members who do this) combine the phrase "a lot" into a single word? I've seen it all over the forum and it's bugging me, so what gives?
* Interesting note: the use of the term "t'other" in the only widely-accepted genuine Jack the Ripper letter to investigators - the famous "From Hell" letter sent to a Mr. Lusk - combined with other evidence and handwriting has led profilers to tend toward accepting Francis Tumblety as Jack the Ripper. While American, Tumblety had a first-gen Irish father.
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T'isnt my opinion.
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Irish? T'other's more Yorkshire than Irish.Mikey wrote:it's probably a similar colloquialism to the Irish use of the fabricated contraction "t'other."
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Kind of like "ya'll"?
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I'd argue about ain't. What are its components?Tyyr wrote:Ya'll is a proper word, just like ain't.
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