https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/spelling/alright-or-all-right/ GrammarBook.com Thu, 02 Feb 2023 04:31:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.5 https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/spelling/alright-or-all-right/#comment-1585297 Thu, 02 Feb 2023 04:31:13 +0000 https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/?p=4544#comment-1585297 We were emphatically taught that “all right” was two words, but “already” was one. I am astonished at how many people didn’t learn this. I don’t remember lessons on “a lot” but did learn that the word “allot” meant “to distribute” and had a double “l”.

]]> https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/spelling/alright-or-all-right/#comment-1453569 Mon, 12 Apr 2021 20:44:23 +0000 https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/?p=4544#comment-1453569 I have been writing “alright” for decades and have learned, just in the last year, that it is frowned upon. I wish I had my very-long-ago grade school spelling book to prove that I was actually taught that “alright” was right. (I can see it now, in the perfect cursive handwriting of that gray book.) Not to fight about it, because it won’t change anything, but at least to ease the embarrassment of being all wrong for so many years.

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