General Message

[davidn]

"A" and "lot" are two separate words.

Comments

[scellanis.livejournal.com]

:P

[wolfekko.livejournal.com]

I concur

[(Anonymous)]

that's alot of fuss over nothing

[the-twilighted.livejournal.com]

As are "no" and "one"...

[e-to-the-ipi.livejournal.com]

Noone seems to make that mistake. But alot of people do the other one.
I'm so, so sorry, English language.

[the-twilighted.livejournal.com]

I've seen it written as "noone" plenty of times...

[e-to-the-ipi.livejournal.com]

So have I. But I thought that was the best way to fit it into the sentence.

[the-twilighted.livejournal.com]

Ah. I see. Oh well.

[plette.livejournal.com]

When I was a teaching assistant and saw that, I used to pretend I thought it was just a spelling error or typo, and that they meant "allot." Consequently I would say their sentence made no sense. When they told me what they meant I would be shocked, as if such a horribly wrong spelling was too far off to have occurred to me. T'was fun.

[mercuryanna.livejournal.com]

Thanks alot! I'll be sure to change my wicked, wicked ways.