atleast?

[Jerome Foster]

but ahold has been getting  a hold...



----- Original Message -----
From: "Bethany K. Dumas" <dumasb at UTK.EDU>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 4:57 PM
Subject: atleast?


> 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
>