atleast?

[Bethany K. Dumas]

Is anyone encountering the spelling "atleast" for "at least" in university
classes or elsewhere? In particular, has anyone encountered invariant
"atleast" from any writers (students or others)?

I think it works like "alot." I knew that battle was over before it was
fought when I saw a sign posted on a TA carrel here at UT many years ago
(sometime in the late 70s). The sign, handwritten, said:

        Students: "Alot" is NOT  a word.

Yeah right.

Bethany