Notice: "ALOT" is NOT a word [shameless grammar-Nazi vanity]

TChris | 7-6-2009 | TChris

[TChris]

Please use "a lot", since those words are actually in the dictionary.

</grammar rant>

[djf]

We’re not all opposed to toes.

Some are proto.

[rightly_dividing]

my old gray brain remembers my grammar teacher saying not to use two punctuation marks at the end of a sentence, she said that alot!.

[T Minus Four]

Ggrrrr...you’re making my skin crawl!

That LITERALLY makes my skin crawl too :-)

[TChris]

I post with a dictionary due to lack of English word knowledge, so it is fun to call a native speaker on something.

Dictionary.com is a good resource.

[tioga]

you and my third grade teacher agree..........

[DollyCali]

I use that “word” alot Chris

[ejonesie22]

Ah!

So that is why we could not get a piece of property with a bigger yard here...

Thanks alot for explaining it

[ejonesie22]

You must go there alot...

[Two Kids' Dad]

I’ve seen a great many professionally-made signs misusing the apostrophe. You’re absolutely write!

(I love threads like this. Their... there... they’re ALOT of fun.)

[Wardenclyffe]

Speaking of "alot," here's the original version of Led Zep's "Whole Lotta Love." Check out the voice 30 seconds in, it's Steve Marriot. Talk about plagiarism! Robert Plant: Shame on you two times!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkQpZpFLpv4

[TChris]

Commas inside of quotations.

...unless conforming to the British style. ;-)

[cripplecreek]

I've had it. From now on I'm gonna talk like Festus from gunsmoke all the time.

But there ain't no such a thing. A little's a little, and a lot's a lot, there ain't no little lot, or lot of little, don't you see? Now you want that beer or don't you?

[envisio]

“”””People who use ‘a lot’ in language are no better educated than the typical high school kid.””””

Well la dee dah. Excuuuuuse me, professor.

[count-your-change]

Acourse hits aword ajust alike acar, amen, away.

[ejonesie22]

That is a grate eyedear, I like it alot.

[T Minus Four]

I actually own this book. It made me tempted to carry a fat black sharpie everywhere.

[TChris]

I’ve seen a great many professionally-made signs misusing the apostrophe. You’re absolutely write!

Signs are often the worst offenders. On my list of annoyances are those that misuse quotation marks for emphasis:

Come on in and check out the "big" savings!

We're "number one" in customer satisfaction!

*gag*

[PeteB570]

I ain’t gonna’.

[cripplecreek]

Iffin none of us could read writtin or write readin, wouldn’t nobody know if they’s writtin was right or wrong without bein able to read the writtin in the first place.

[TChris]

you and my third grade teacher agree

Good! I like her alot already!