A lot not alot

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Why do so many people on here think there is such a word as ALOT?!
It’s A LOT
There is no such word as alot.

Thank you for coming to my hormonal insomniac Ted talk.

@h3av3n I don’t care that much.
But it’s nothing to do with education. I have a friend with a PhD (science based) who always writes alot and foreward instead of forward.

Etcetera is so often shortened to ect, instead of etc., and it drives me crazy!

'Chester draws' drives me insane!!

It's 'chest of drawers'.....what is wrong with some people!

Alot.

You'll get loads of people basically saying you're Hitler for commenting on spelling, but 'alot' is plain bollocks and can't be blamed on autocorrect. See also the thread on here where someone boasts of a first class degree and a great life but uses the bullshit term 'aswell'. My autocorrect does not like that.

I remember my English teacher in year 8 saying "you don't write afew, so you don't have alot."

It stuck with me.

@Pinkchocolate It would be really useful to have a second person plural though. French does. Scouse does (‘yous’).

I hate this one aswell.

It’s awful, the OP of a thread earlier today used it repeatedly along with ‘abit’

I would imagine that the confusion with 'alot', but not 'a few' etc, stems from the fact that 'allot' is a real word.

My bug bear is the incorrect use of less/fewer.

Noone is the worst for me 😬

Alot, abit, inbetween, infront, thankyou... ARE NOT WORDS!

Drives me potty.

[quote HopeClearwater]@Pinkchocolate It would be really useful to have a second person plural though. French does. Scouse does (‘yous’).[/quote]

My friend puts "beems" instead of "being as" in texts.

She legitimately thinks it's a word and I'd feel like a pedantic twat correcting her so I let it slide when it crops up, but it does bug me.

@Pinkchocolate It would be really useful to have a second person plural though. French does. Scouse does (‘yous’).

@HopeClearwater 🤣🤣🤣

@lucie8881

My friend puts "beems" instead of "being as" in texts.

She legitimately thinks it's a word and I'd feel like a pedantic twat correcting her so I let it slide when it crops up, but it does bug me.

I need to see this in a sentence. I can’t work it out!

The kind of context she uses it:

"Beems I'm off work Friday do you want to meet up for lunch?"

It doesn't crop up all that often but it's jarring when it does

@sbhydrogen

As well you mean 😂

Don't see why any grammar would bother people though

I hadn't realised this - thanks alot!

Just don't moan about something whilst making the same mistake @sbhydrogen

@tripletsss Whoosh 🤣

'Youse' makes sense. Lots of other languages have the equivalent, and I think it was used in Old English.

Besides, I'm Scouse, and we find it useful!

@sbhydrogen sorry I was only joking really we just do our best. However I nearly hit someone with my car today because they littered on purpose. This bugs me so much. Minor language errors everyone does all the time

It makes me laugh when people put pictures up of their children and write my little angle instead of my little angel 😇. Lol. X

When people mix up "advise" and "advice". How hard can it be.