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From: Kevin Caldwell <kevin.caldwell1963 at verizon.net>
Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2007.07.06 (02) [E]

Ron, this is hardly anything new. Schoolchildren have been trying to write
it as one word for decades, much to the dismay and frustration of English
teachers all across America. It's just becoming more and more acceptable
because the Internet doesn't have an editor.

Kevin Caldwell

From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Orthography

Dear Lowlanders,

Have you noticed a relatively recent trend toward spelling "a lot" as one
word ("alot"), though not yet in formal print?

Whilst I have seen spelled like that in any context (e.g., "we bought
*alot*of stuff), I noticed that this spelling is used for when the
word functions
as an adverb (e.g., "I like it *alot**," "* thanks *alot*," "they went to
the beach *alot*").

Does this mean that the word is being reanalyzed as a single word, as has
happened to "however," "nevertheless," "whatsoever," etc.?

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron
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From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org>
Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2007.07.06 (06) [E]

> From: "Brooks, Mark" <mark.brooks at twc.state.tx.us>
> Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2007.07.06 (03) [E]
>
> Something funny, when I typed "a lot" my auto-correct makes it into
> two words "a lot."

Sounds like Microsoft or OpenOffice have known about this for a while,
then!

I've never heard of "a lot" as being typed or thought of as one word, I
always think of it as two, even though I use the phrase a lot in both
Scots and English. Maybe it's true that us Scots are more linguistically
conservative than youlot  :)

Sandy Fleming
http://scotstext.org/

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