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>

[Erasmus]

Other beloved oxymorons:

Pretty ugly
Big-a** t**s.

[Professional Engineer]

That is all.

Judging from the number of replies...

No it ain't.

[jdub]

try not to loose any sleep over it...

[Vendome]

See my post to TChris:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2286523/posts?page=162#162

[Erasmus]

Geez, you’re good. You responded to my suggestion in 11 seconds!

[Earthdweller]

LOL!

[Kimmers]

EWEEEEEEEE skinny green things!!!!

[Erasmus]

I used to wear a wizard’s cap, but I switched to an alpine hat. If you can type the sequence & le ; without the spaces, HTML will do the rest.

I feel like James Randi giving away the secret of his favorite illusion.

Or Leonid Brezhnev giving away his favorite Ilyushin.

[Hot Tabasco]

NO! alot alot alot alot alot alot alot alot alot alot alot........

aint aint aint aint aint aint aint aint.....

[a fool in paradise]

“Obama” isn’t even in the FR spellcheck dictionary.

[Earthdweller]

≤

It works! Magic!

[Hank Kerchief]

“When people mean “lose” and say ‘loose.’”

I think that is frequently a typo. I never hear anyone actually “say” loose when they mean lose. The error shows up in my own typing (I type phonetically, I guess—think choose and booze for example) and of course a spell-checker does not find it. If you are a fast typist, you do not type letters, but whole words, and do not think of the letters at all. It annoys me no end when I find I’ve done it. It has nothing to do with spelling ability.

Hank

[djsherin]

thefactor, I don’t blame you for no longer emailing with someone who spells it with an ‘a’. I have to correct everyone who spells it with an ‘a’ and it happens ALL the time.

Whenever I ask people what the word ‘finate’ means they always automatically correct the spelling of definitely after a few seconds and I sort of laugh to myself. I try as much as possible to use correct grammar, though I slip up every once in a while and let me apologize if I make any errors here (I’m on a hotel computer and the keyboard is less than cooperative).

And i totally agree about the puncuation inside quotes; it doesn’t make much sense to me either.

[windcliff]

Thanks for lesson.

[Earthdweller]

I second that. Thanks for the lesson. We need all the help we can get. (I really love you Miss Straddler)


(Do I get an 'A'?...just kidding! LOL)

Thanks....really.

[TChris]

Alot is what you find along a long road, a lot.

I'll allot you more space to post a lot more about "alot."

[Poser]

““Obama” isn’t even in the FR spellcheck dictionary.”

What I want to know is: Who was Bama???

[headsonpikes]

Oh, come on! I've GOT to win the coveted Pet Peeve award!

There's a Pet Peeve award?

If so, I submit the use of "tenant" or "tenent" when "tenet" is clearly meant.

Otoh, I fully understand why these posters prefer an attempt at tenet to a relative moon-shot at principle.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Some British things are stupid, and some American formats are stupid.

I use a mish-mash.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I have it, too - thanks to my sister, who knows how I hate bad grammar.