"alot" when people mean "a lot"

[QOFE]

I'm seeing this more and more. It can't even be down to autocorrect as "alot" isn't even a blooming word!

Is anyone else noticing this creeping in as one word instead of two?

[Strik]

It’s been here for years! Awful, awful.

[QOFE]

@Strik

It’s been here for years! Awful, awful.

Wierdly I've only started seeing it regularly in the last few months. I saw it rarely enough up until recently to assume it was a typo but now it's bloody everywhere!

[Purplepeoniesdroppingpetals]

I have such a battle with kids over this. In my classes, it’s this misspelling and ‘diffrent’ and ‘intresting’ that are most frequently misspelled. I think it’s to do with spoken English and dialect.

[MaggieBsBoat]

Language changes. As a linguist I welcome it and study it.
Also alot has been around since I was at school 30+ years ago

[RubaiyatOfAnyone]

I like this alot

[Sweetashunni]

Don’t get me started on ‘we was’. The thing is I’m sure they know it’s not correct but also don’t want to look too bright..

[toochesterdraws]

Ugh.

[EileenBrysonsTeabags]

@RubaiyatOfAnyone I like your MN alot-thread alot a lot.

[MissJoGrant]

@QOFE

Wierdly I've only started seeing it regularly in the last few months. I saw it rarely enough up until recently to assume it was a typo but now it's bloody everywhere!

*weirdly

This is a forum for the pedantic after all! 😂

[BatshitCrazyWoman]

I've noticed 'aswel' (as well) creeping in too ...

[MissJoGrant]

These are the main ones I see:

Alot.

Definately.

Loose instead of lose (occasionally vice versa).

Women instead of woman (and vice versa).

Advise instead of advice.

[iklboo]

I've noticed 'aswel' (as well) creeping in too ...

Yes. It's happening quite abit 😄

[Shitzngiggles]

I'm seeing incase as well.

My sister uses alot, she used to be a teacher 😒.

[WolfFoxHare]

I’ve recently started seeing ‘abit’ which is also annoying.

[kaymc3]

Someone I know also uses 'alittle' and 'abit' 😭 it does my head in because it happens alot 😜

[QOFE]

@MissJoGrant

*weirdly

This is a forum for the pedantic after all! 😂

🤣

It is one word I am apparently incapable of getting right. The more I look at it the worse it gets, so I just take a guess and hope for the best every time 😬

[QOFE]

@kaymc3

Someone I know also uses 'alittle' and 'abit' 😭 it does my head in because it happens alot 😜

"alittle" 🤯

[SageRosemary]

Two fun ones I've seen here: -

Pedal stool for pedestal

Non shallot for nonchalant - I has my post deleted for politely pointing that one out, the OP was amused rather than offended and someone has purloined it for their user name.

The one that bugs me most is lose/loose - Always tempted to suggest "You might find that your belt is too loose when you manage to lose weight."

[SageRosemary]

And I smile when I see defiantly instead of definitely

[Motheranddaughtertotwo]

My current annoyance is that all of my friends are “on route” to their holiday destinations. 🤬🤬🤬

[pamshortsbrokenbothherlegs]

Alot has been around for decades. The comic posted upthread is at least 20 years old. A classic!

My latest pet peeve is incase, it's absolutely everywhere. I can't imagine everyone using it is meaning to refer to a line of protective cases for Apple gear... 😂

[teaandtoastwithmarmite]

Love these threads 🤣

[HiCandles]

Oh I hate this, see also abit. I told my mum this was incorrect after she kept sending it to me and she was genuinely surprised it wasn't a real word. She does read books and is fairly well educated so I was bemused how she'd never noticed it would be written as two words.

[WhenIWasAFieldMyself]

@Purplepeoniesdroppingpetals

I have such a battle with kids over this. In my classes, it’s this misspelling and ‘diffrent’ and ‘intresting’ that are most frequently misspelled. I think it’s to do with spoken English and dialect.

As a teacher, surely you know that "alot" is simply a mistake while "intresting" etc is due to elided syllables?

[WhenIWasAFieldMyself]

@SageRosemary

Two fun ones I've seen here: -

Pedal stool for pedestal

Non shallot for nonchalant - I has my post deleted for politely pointing that one out, the OP was amused rather than offended and someone has purloined it for their user name.

The one that bugs me most is lose/loose - Always tempted to suggest "You might find that your belt is too loose when you manage to lose weight."

You were deleted because it's deeply unpleasant to make fun of other people whose English might not be as good as your own.

If that's your idea of fun, then you're nothing but a bully.