A question for people who write 'alot'

[Devilledmeg]

Do you think 'alot' is how you're meant to spell it and whenever you see 'a lot' you think it's spelt wrong? Or do you know it's incorrect and just prefer to spell it like that?

Genuinely baffled as whenever I see words on here repeatedly spelt differently I look it up to check I haven't spelt it incorrectly all my life 😁

May I add "thankyou"? Also seen alot.

Is it a regional thing like brought/bought draw/drawer?

this has confused me?

Thankyou without a gap is a word

I think a lot becoming alot is because of text speak.

Aswell drives me absolutely potty!!

Don't forget 'abit' as that seems to have become one word!

Ano, surely 😉.

My Junior 4 teacher used to make anyone who used alot look it up in the dictionary. Of course they couldn't find it because it's not a bloody word! It really annoys me.

I trip up over it when I read it too.

Draw instead of drawers is a malapropism, rather than a regional variation I think. I read it so frequently!

And words that are often found together sometimes evolve to become one word - so thank you might become thank-you which then becomes thankyou. Horrific 😄! I like there to be one correct way to write things, but I clearly need to relax.

'abit' and 'aswell' are other ones I often see!

I blend words and make spelling mistakes/ miss out letters because my brain moves much faster than my fingers for actual reasons!

I spend my school and college years constantly being pulled up for 'petty errors' and made to feel a bit stupid until my Uni realised I had an issue with processing and gave me a Dictaphone - so I could get all the words out.

I still get things proofread for work when it's really important but, at the age of 52, I have learned not to give a shiny shit if people on the interweb think I'm thick - I know I am not. I either type properly and get all the word right or I get my actual words and ideas out - sorry if it bothers people I'm not really .

wordS she even when trying really hard - missing letters!

Kids write this alot

YesitsBess that’s a brilliant cartoon.

I used to do this with alright - I actually thought it was a word (so does autocorrect, apparently). I remember being corrected by a teacher when I was about 9 and I thought she must be wrong and sneakily looked it up in the dictionary - no, she was right, it’s not a word!

I see alot of Iam around.

Brief history on the Alot

It should be allowed. It sounds like it is one word. Like alright for all right. Some people really hate that.

I think alright is acceptable now tbh, phones don't autocorrect it & Ive often seen it in print.

The draws thing baffles me. I'm 43 and I swear I had never seen or heard this until about five years ago, and now it's everywhere.

A friend of mine is a secondary school English teacher and she calls it a form of social contagion, spread by SM.

As more people do more of their reading via online content (as opposed to books, produced by professional editors and proofreaders), then inevitably mistakes will slip through and be adopted as the norm.

I was always taught never to pull somebody up on mispronouncing a word, as they would most likely have seen it written down, but never spoken aloud. I'm not sure how I feel about random malapropisms.

(Incidentally, I'm fairly sure I've double-checked this post for errors, but I await the inevitable pointing out of Muphry's Law at some point.)

People writing draw for drawer? I've never seen it.

I was top sets for history, maths and science, passed GCSEs, A levels with As.

Yet I struggle with their and there. I know what they both mean but still continue to use them the wrong way 😂

People make mistakes. Some people find it very hard to remember spellings and grammar rules. There is really no need to let it bother you. What will you actually gain by 'understanding' why people make the mistakes they do?

How about onto? You can have into, so why not onto?

Yet I struggle with their and there. I know what they both mean but still continue to use them the wrong way

Isn't the way to remember those to think of 'here and there'?

Someone once wrote a message on the notice board in the lobby about taking care of "our blocker flats"

You can have 'onto'.