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 drove down the road and turned into a multi-storey car park.

I remember being taught ‘a fish lot’ in the 80s (by inserting a word in the middle it makes it clear it’s two separate words).

jerz.setonhill.edu/blog/2011/08/17/hyperbole-and-a-half-the-alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything/amp/

Ah, you’re fixating on my first post that did a strange autocorrect. Not the amended one. So you’re making a point about a silly typo rather than a grammatical correction. Well done!

This is exactly it. No-one used to see lots of adults’ typed thoughts and now we do.

The mistake that I hadn’t seen before social media is a confusion between “none” and “non”. This feels odd to me because I pronounce these differently but it’s easy to see why you might mix them up if you don’t.

(What’s more, when I see “non” on its own, I read it as the French for “no”.)

WHO CARES

It doesn’t even register to most people because we don’t have to pick apart other peoples grammar to feel superior.

Please don’t. They won’t think you’re clever or funny. They’ll just think you’re really sad.

Agreed.

And alot makes sense.
I had alot in that auction - tons of stuff
I had a lot in that action - one auction slot.

@LuciaPopp brought and bought have different meanings as do draw and drawer. They're not regional things

Those words are not 'regional' they mean different things ....

@Badgirlriri A business with an error in its name doesn't look professional so I hope someone 'really sad' will tell them.

I've never actually seen this. Surely autocorrect would correct a lot? Like it just did!

😘

I know it’s wrong, I just like spelling things informally / colloquially - eg wanna, dunno, gonna

Are you from the US? I've noticed they use 'gotten' and the like.

Thankyou is another one. I always wonder do people who write thankyou notice that it isn't how everyone spells it.

A business with an error in its name doesn't look professional so I hope someone 'really sad' will tell them.

Why do you care whether they look professional?

Someone put me straight up-thread when I said that. I thought it had to be two words but they said otherwise,

Daffodil is similar to apron - it was originally d'affodil but the two became contracted in English 🙂

Brought and bought, drawer and draw aren't regional! They're just plain wrong!

I think a thankyou card is a thing but if I say thank you for the gift, it needs to be two words?

Having said this, at the age of 30, I only just learnt the difference between everyday and every day.

Interweb drives me mad, sorry.

The internet is not the world wide web.

People seem to read fewer books these days so they don't subconsciously pick up lots of grammar and spelling. And autocorrect struggles still if you are miles out with your attempt; plus it learns so if you repeatedly type something it will see it as correct.

I think the other problem is that in schools we've gone from not really being taught grammar at all, to the insane situation where children have to focus on the minutiae of some grammar aspects whilst missing others. My two can point out, describe and write a fronted adverbial and identify the use of various tenses but they struggle with your/you're and their/there/they're. That just hasn't been drummed into them like my strict teachers did for me.

I think that language can change and eventually 'alot ' (took me ages to type that as autocorrect wouldn't let me ) might be considered correct. However things like draws for drawers, mixing bought and brought (I admit to getting this wrong in speech despite knowing the correct one to use), and using the wrong your or you're will always be grammatically wrong IMO.

Like a couple of PPs, I find albeit strange. For years I only read it and in my head it was 'all-bite'. I didn't associate it with the 'all be it' that I heard people say.

I also HATE 'webinar.' Sets my blood on fire.

It’s so weird, though. Like ‘a’ is surely the easiest word in the English language to spell (joint top with ‘I’). That’s why I really don’t understand people getting it wrong so much.