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 😁

I think 'alot' has been around for a long time - certainly I remember being corrected on it as a child in the 80s.

'Abit', 'infact' and 'incase' seem to have come about quite recently though.

Oh yes. I always write "incase" and my phone always says no. 😔

@YesitsBess thank you for sharing the adventures of the Alot. It is GOLDEN.

I've written "alot" a couple of times. I'm foreign. I doubt that your Dutch is better than my English. IIRC 10-20% of mumsnetters aren't British so mistakes are here to stay I guess.

It drives me mad. It's just wrong.

I saw this notice in John Lewis this week. John Lewis!

Spelling drawer as 'draw' is not regional, it's just incorrect.

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

'Onto' is a perfectly acceptable word!

The draws thing baffles me.

I don't find it baffling. In many accents, 'draw' and 'drawer' sound the same. It's probably always been a pretty common error. It's just that since the advent of social media, we see the spelling and grammar of the general public far, far more often.

Bought and brought are not regional variations of the same word. They are past participles of two totally different verbs - to buy and to bring. It's not that difficult to understand the difference!

Maybe take your own advice 😶

I know solicitors about write “incase” as in “just incase”

Fuck me. These are highly educated people. Apparently.

Who write*

What is autocorrect’s problem?!

I could never spell accommodation (and needed to as my job involved writing/typing the word regularly).
Someone told me to imagine the pictures of houses we’d draw as a child, two windows upstairs and two down, two C’s and two M’s.

The “a” word (I’m not teaching it my phone) boils my piss to the extent I vote yabu to anyone using it in their OP, regardless of reasonableness.

Language evolves, as long as meaning is conveyed it think its fine

And some people write "thankyou" rather than "thank you"!

Wow!

It's really not.

I have to admit 'alot' really jars me. I know some people cannot help poor spelling/poor grammar etc, and it doesn't make me any better than them because mine is correct most of the time, but it doesn't alter the fact that it jars me. I have seen it a few times lately - even in the titles of threads!

I also hate 'tennant,' when referring to a tenant of a home.

And I 'brought' a sandwich, instead of bought.

And I 'borrowed' him some money, instead of lent.

'Chest of draws,' instead of chest of drawers.

It is NOT regional. It is bad grammar and bad spelling. Like putting 'loose' instead of lose, 'defiantly,' instead of definitely, and 'I no' instead of I know, and 'discusting 'instead of disgusting. 'Discusting' is not even a word. Surely spell-check tells them it's wrong?!

These are not typos either. We all get them sometimes. This is plain and simple bad spelling, and grammatical errors.

And why can we say goodnight, but not goodmorning?

@Piglet89 you are most welcome. Enjoy your imaginary Alot!

Someone in my local FB group complained about the litter in their 'Colder sack' 😂😂

’Noone’ instead of ‘no one’. I really don’t understand how people think this is right, but it’s becoming increasingly common.

Brought / bought is not a regional thing. One means to bring something, one means to buy something. Different accents don't change the meanings of the words.

No. It's just wrong.

If I said 'Greenvegies (instead of Greenveggies) told me this' it would be wrong, not evolving. Yet everyone here would understand it was you who told me something, so the meaning is correct.