Joining Two Words Together Incorrectly

[Aubin7]

Eachother
Thankyou

I struggled to type this as auto correct didn't like the above (unsurprisingly).

I am seeing this kind of thing more and more. Is it an Americanism?

Infront
Inbetween
Ofcourse

Thankyou
Alot

Thankyou is incorrect in American English, too. Thank-you and thank you, however, are correct depending on context. I believe eachother is also universally incorrect (along with alot).

This is not an Americanism! Please don’t be so quick to blame everything you don’t like on Americans. I’ve only seen British people doing this smooshing together of words like “in fact” or “as well”. My autocorrect won’t even let me type those monstrosities. 😂

Just wondering why 'inbetween' doesn't grate quite as much as the others. For describing actual positions between two things I'd still use in between. But I might also say 'I'm not sure what to wear today, the weather is sort of inbetween'. Maybe there's a shift in the way the word(s) are being used or maybe it's just thst my standards are slipping 😄

Noone is the hill I’ll die on.

Autocorrect doesn’t let time type it, I have to override it. How do so many people get it wrong?

Unless you're referring to the lead singer of Herman's Hermits!

From the thread title, I thought this was going to be about things like Laura norder, as strongly promoted by Pamela Randerson!

"Everyday" (when used incorrectly to mean "each day" as opposed to "ordinary", where it is a single adjective) is one that irks me.

And the classic alot, bit, aswell, ofcourse, nevermind (that one's Nirvana's fault), noone...

Alot is definitely the one that I find myself most incredulous about. It's become so common that I can see it becoming accepted and standardised, to the point where people believe that you're wrong and look at you pityingly if you spell it correctly as two words - like we already see with 'dice' and 'data' used as though they were singular.

Yes, in the same way as so many people don't seem to know the difference between 'maybe' and 'may be'.

I think it happens when people see a legitimate word used correctly, and so they assume that it's always the correct word/spelling for that approximate sound.

in the same way as, because 'of' is a perfectly correct word in the right context, and the second part of 'could've' can sound very similar to it, that must mean that 'I could of' is correct!

Perhaps there should be a thread about the new habit of unnecessarily capitalising thread titles.

And AfricaR and India.

I think that one is a lot more open to interpretation, though. Titles in English have long been written with each word capitalised (other than maybe minor little words like 'of' or 'and'). Would you expect to go to the theatre and see 'The phantom of the opera' written on the programme?

I get that there's potentially a bit of a blurring between an official title (such as of a book) and what is essentially often just an opening sentence to begin a chat, as with MN.

There are rules about which titles get capitialised - e.g., books, musicals - and which don't - e.g. newspaper headings. Thread titles seem more like newspaper headings, which is probably why the convention of not capitalising them developed.
There are also rules of consistency. Publications can make choices about whether to capitalise certain things, and then the only rule is to follow whatever choice has been made. No-caps thread titles seems to be the grassroots-generated rule on MN.

Book titles are in title case e.g. A Room of One's Own. Thread titles are usually in sentence case e.g. Joining two words incorrectly.

I tend to not tap the space key forcefully, which means I might unwittingly type something like maybe when I mean may be.

I used to work for a company where someone had a name like Sarah Redwood. Some thought she was Sarah Edwards.

Alot.
Abit.

No.

I always think of Peter Noone when I see that!

Very very harsh @MyThreeWords

Alook
Oldfashion (also missing the -ed at the end of the word 😭)

Yes!! It’s a very common Irish surname.

I can’t ready it as anything else.

I reckon the potential for misunderstanding could make for a silly but quite amusing comedy sketch - with a taxi driver holding a sign at the airport first thing in the morning, expecting to be collecting an Irish person/family; and still waiting there fruitlessly when the evening comes... as 'no one' has quite literally ever come over to him!

<I'll get me coat>

And title capitalisation is different in French.

It's a bit like 'everyday' and 'every day', which have two different meanings.