Conjoining words - everyday, abit, alot, weightloss

[WhatdoesitmeanKeith]

I need to come here and vent! Why, just why is this happening so much?

These ‘words’ are not even suggested by autocorrect, so I really doubly don’t understand it.

Caveat, I know in some contexts ‘everyday’ is okay, but the correct context is not how I’m seeing it used. Help!

You're right, but there will be 973 people along soon to tell you that language evolves. Yes it does, but not always for the better. I think people do this because they don't read. We all say alot as one word, so they think it's written like that. See also jesture, chester draws, Terry Cotter pots ( I shit you not!).

Depressing, but I agree this is the most likely explanation. And I agree about language evolution. But… aaaggghh!

Are people just overriding autocorrect to shoehorn in these words?

I always thought everyday and every day were both legit words but with two different meanings.
I wash my hair every day.
I use an everyday soap to wash my body, but a special face wash for my face.
Am I wrong?

I agree. "Everyday" means "ordinary" and "every day" means "each day."

I was given this recently ….

No. This is correct usage. I did caveat that in the OP.

Spectacular. 👏

Terry Cotter 🤣 I hear he only works in red tones 🤣

@WhatdoesitmeanKeith I have just noticed the underscore too !

The opposite also happens. I've seen 'in tact' and 'high rate' a few times.

I did miss that, apologies!

I think you've used them in exactly the correct way.

Highrate? Is that when you're really angry and on your high horse about something?

@AgentPidge , it's splitting irate and is probably an eggcorn.

Yes! I had someone ask to come and take "alook" at some work that I needed a quote for recently.

Hometown, eachother, infact and incase are everywhere.

My theory is that because of social media, misspellings are much more contagious than they used to be. Previously, we tended to mainly read published material that had been carefully checked for errors, so the number of mistakes were quite small. These days people read more content on social media, so they are an error and subconsciously absorb it and start using it themselves. Before you know it, everyone (or at least those who don't recognise it as incorrect) is using it.

I started a thread about this card I saw in the supermarket last week:

Just to be mischievous (but not mischievious); 'caveat' is a noun, not a verb.

Just saying...

I'm just surprised it doesn't say "... it mean's alot".

Thankyou.

I’ve just seen ‘ofcourse’ twice on Instagram 🙈

I've seen 'part for the course' today.

People are always verbing nouns these days... 😉

Alot is the one that drives me nuts.