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 😁

It really is on an internet forum.

Not so much in an official letter.

I rite alot alot an I done care if u not

Chester draws does my head in. Do people think every set of drawers comes from Chester or that Chester made them?

I agree with this. 20% of the population have some form of dyslexia. I find the comments on here about spelling so sneery.

A pp saying that writing 'alot' is disgusting. Catch a fucking grip, there are plenty of things in life that are disgusting and this isn't one of them. 🙄

Why? If language didn't evolve we would still be speaking old English for example. New words are added to the dictionary often.
I'd prefer people to be able to express themselves rather than be held to a set of grammar and spelling rules

Totally.

Just because people in a certain region pronounce a word "draws" doesn't mean they also spell it that way. Only the people who can't spell do so.

Bingo. You spot the differences, I don't. I remember my English teacher dispairing because I had spelt "definitely" with 3 different, incorrect spellings in the same essay (if it is correct here blame my spellchecker).

Well, it's good enough for the Almighty...

coldersack and blocker flats. Brilliant.

What an 'orrible 'abit.

I'm not too bad with spelling but I really struggle with numbers. I just cannot remember my times tables and I can never spot a pattern in numbers.

You're right. This is not really particularly 'discusting.' Just irksome (to some.) People are entitled to their own opinions you know. Maybe this thread is not the place for you if this is upsetting you so much. Maybe consider hiding it.

A lot of people are answering a different question to the one I posed and getting worked up with unnecessary indignation.

I haven't said anyone is stupid, I haven't said I sit at home and get wound up about it. Instead I'm trying to understand more from those who misspell it about why. Yes I know dyslexia is a thing but it's this word in particular that seems to be misspelt the most even though people will have also seen it spelt correctly the most!

The point on particular words increasing in how they are spelt incorrectly (potentially to social media) was interesting. I also didn't know about alright!

I remember seeing the word 'albeit' written down for the first time at school and going home telling my parents how silly the teacher was thinking it was one word like that. Still think it looks funny.

Oh, I do this one all the time- my phone tries to correct me but I plough on regardless. I think it’s the influence of “nobody”.

There's no such thing as 'text speak' anymore. It died out about 12-14 years ago when smartphones started to become more popular/common. People were able to write the words properly then, and write much more lengthy texts.

Originally basic mobile phones of the early to mid noughties would only allow about 120 characters or so in a text. That is why people wrote M8 and H8 instead of mate and hate, and alot instead of a lot, and ur instead of your or you're, so they could fit more of what they wanted to say in a text. Absolutely no need whatsover to be doing this anymore.

My phone autocorrects done and some to "sone", and I don't know how to re-train it!

Misspellings don’t bother me as a rule. But alot really irritates me. It just does.

@Devilledmeg

Some people get very upset when people post a thread bashing grammar and spelling, even if it's not intended with malice, and is just an opinion and/or an observation. I would expect the thread to be deleted soo, with the deletion message as 'not in the spirit of the site.' (I haven't reported it by the way!!!)

So do people who write 'alot' also write 'abit' or 'alittle'?

I’m a SPAG champion and I couldn’t get up worked about this. Get a life.

😂😂

I think it’s entirely down to people not reading anymore, except for the internet.

Any typos are deliberate to annoy the pedants.

Did you know that there's no such word as "apron"? It's a back formation from "a napron" - people heard it as "an apron" and said and wrote it accordingly, whereupon it eventually became the accepted usage.

Language evolves, very often through inaccuracies.