A lot not alot

[Goslowlysideways]

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.

@sbhydrogen

I've been thinking about this for awhile.

😏 JK, I hate 'alot' (and 'awhile')

'awhile' is ok

From online dictionary:

awhile
/əˈwʌɪl/
Learn to pronounce
adverb
for a short time.
"stand here awhile"

I keep seeing the word 'atop' instead of 'on top of' recently. Where has that come from?

Of instead of have

I'd of said..

My bugbear on this site is posters who write ‘que’ (which isn’t even a word in English) instead of ‘cue’.

@longtimelurkerfirsttimeposter

Of instead of have

I'd of said..

This one real grips my arse, it's bloody obvious it's wrong.

Brought instead of bought annoys me.

I saw ‘brung’ the other day, instead of brought.

I just saw 'aloud' instead of 'allowed'

I'm terrible at spelling so I aways have quick look through these just in case there are some that I have been doing unknowingly

I have recently realised that thank you is 2 separate words I also have to really think about the difference between bought and brought when I use them!

One of my friends constantly uses ' women' instead of 'woman'. For example, she will put a post on Facebook saying "I love this women" and then a photo of her mum. It makes me scream inside

That gets right on my tits, Gibbus. Like the 'should of' example above, its completely obvious that it's wrong.

TAAT.

Does the milk monitor want a new badge?

It's 'seeing as' not 'being as' pp.

But probably won't be for much longer and will sit alongside 'chomping at the bit' and 'off his own back', to name but two mangled expressions.

@AgentProvocateur

My bugbear on this site is posters who write ‘que’ (which isn’t even a word in English) instead of ‘cue’.

I said that in the style of Manuel

@campion

I've just assumed she's using in place of "being as" because that's what it sounds most like coupled with the context it's being used in.

@lucie8881

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

Oh that’s almost funny!

AgentProvocateur
*My bugbear on this site is posters who write ‘que’ (which isn’t even a word in English) instead of ‘cue’.

I said that in the style of Manuel*

Me too!

Please bare with me, OP, but I’m afraid your fighting a loosing (ha ha) battle here.
Unfortunately my advise would be to give up now, because it definately won’t effect anyone’s grasp of spelling on here. TBH I should of thought that was pretty obvious.

I am so glad to be apart of this thread

Yous is also a common dialect word in N Ireland...

A gift bag a friend got me a few years ago because she knew it would drive me mad. I also once found some Christmas cards in Poundland a nice plump angel on the front and the words, “Angles Singing.’ But that made me laugh.

Yes lose and loose.
@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER probably.

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER

Please bare with me, OP, but I’m afraid your fighting a loosing (ha ha) battle here. Unfortunately my advise would be to give up now, because it definately won’t effect anyone’s grasp of spelling on here. TBH I should of thought that was pretty obvious.

9/10. You would have got 10 if you'd got defiantly right

*'awhile' is ok

It certainly exists, but it's not interchangeable with "a while", any more than "everyday" is interchangeable with "every day".

Darn it - bold fail.