A rant about spelling. A lot is TWO WORDS, people!

[Cant trust em]

Sorry. I just got another e-mail from someone who spelled it "alot". It's a pet peeve of mine.

Thanks for listening (or reading).

:hi:

[madinmaryland]

1. I've seen that alot here!!1!!

:hi:

[SCantiGOP]

10. local newspaper

Had a story about someone who "past away."
I guess their spellchecker didn't catch it.

[Oeditpus Rex]

21. Spell check wouldn't catch that

since "past" is also a word, and spell check doesn't discriminate between contexts.

That's why Dog made copy editors — who are always the first to go in newsroom cutbacks.

Now that I think of it, though, I'd bet that was in a paid obit, and those are usually handled by the advertising department. Most newspapers use "died" in death/funeral notices.

[SCantiGOP]

22. this paper doesn't check very well

about ten years ago the buzz around town one day was a secretarial ad that said: "fuck you way to the top." Turns out there were two women, one who wrote the copy and one who checked it. The first lady wrote that as a joke for the second lady to catch, which she didn't. The paper apologized and they were both fired.

[Oeditpus Rex]

25. Again, that's advertising

For some reason (like, say, money), newspapers have never seen the wisdom in putting real editors on the Other Side to catch stuff — and dog knows stuff slips through in ads, especially classifieds.

Friend of mine was a reporter at a small Central California daily in the late '70s. One day he came into work and everyone in advertising was hanging their head while those on the news side were snickering. My friend asked what was up, and someone showed him a large ad for a local clothing store. The banner copy read, "BIG PANTS AND SHIRT SALE."



But they dropped the 'r' from "shirt." :D

[fizzgig]

33. my old paper once ran an employment ad for a whorehouse

it was supposed to be for delivery and warehouse positions, but apparently the ad rep didn't know how to spell warehouse and, for some idiot reason or another, seemed to have just clicked through spell check without paying attention to the suggested words.

it ran in the saturday paper and the weekend classifieds are printed friday...the poor ACE was on the phone forever trying to get it fixed for the sunday paper but i never found out if it was taken care of.

[MrCoffee]

2. Irregardless, supposably you weren't pacific enough about your preference.

[Cant trust em]

5. We should probably conversate about this.

Their must be something we can do to effect this.

[mikeytherat]

27. Should we all meet at the liberry?

mikey_the_rat

[Rambis]

6. Oh now you have done it!

I have to go to a meeting tonight where that non word will be recorded at least a half dozen times and I will try not to stick a pen in my eye.

[Rambis]

3. My five year old told me that yesterday

I learned it in 5th grade I think?:toast:

[underpants]

4. Thanks

alot

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. Irregardless, you're screed about alot for all intensive purposes doesn't effect me. nt

[suninvited]

8. Alot of people really get

disturbed by spelling errors.

[Cant trust em]

13. Feel rage building. Can't hold back.....

[DS1]

9. alright

[Shell Beau]

15. I knew someone was gonna do it!

[Z_I_Peevey]

11. I love you.

Really.

[PeaceNikki]

12. Hrmph. It's a mute point anyway.

[khashka]

14. irregardless of you're hangups

alot of us cant tipe. Me incuded.

Khash.

[Fox Mulder]

16. That makes alot of sense.

[Doc_Technical]

17. The phrase "a lot" should only be used when talking about

real estate or auctions.
What's wrong with saying frequently, often, many, etc.?
This is part of the "dumbing down" of our language to
decrease thought, (1984 anyone?)

[Cant trust em]

18. Fuck that fucking shit.

[kentauros]

26. "Should only be used..."?

Nope, the evolution of language isn't quite so restrictive, luckily :P

From Dictionary.com:

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
lot noun, verb, lot·ted, lot·ting, adverb
–noun
1. one of a set of objects, as straws or pebbles, drawn or thrown from a container to decide a question or choice by chance.
2. the casting or drawing of such objects as a method of deciding something: to choose a person by lot.
3. the decision or choice made by such a method.
4. allotted share or portion: to receive one's lot of an inheritance.
5. the portion in life assigned by fate or Providence; one's fate, fortune, or destiny: Her lot had not been a happy one.
6. a distinct portion or piece of land: a building lot.
7. a piece of land forming a part of a district, city, or other community.
8. South Midland and Southern U.S. a farmyard or barnyard.
9. a piece of land having the use specified by the attributive noun or adjective: a parking lot; a used-car lot.
10. Movies. a motion-picture studio and its surrounding property.
11. a distinct portion or parcel of anything, as of merchandise: The furniture was to be auctioned off in 20 lots.
12. a number of things or persons collectively: There's one more, and that's the lot.
13. kind of person; sort: He's a bad lot.
14. Often, lots. a great many or a great deal: a lot of books; lots of money.
15. Chiefly British. a tax or duty.

–verb (used with object)
16. to divide or distribute by lot (sometimes fol. by out): to lot furniture for sale; to lot out apples by the basketful.
17. to assign to one as his or her lot; allot.
18. to divide into lots, as land.
19. Obsolete. to cast or draw lots for.

–verb (used without object)
20. to draw lots.

–adverb
21. Often, lots. a great deal; greatly: Thanks a lot for the ride. I care lots about my family.

—Idioms
22. cast or cast in one's lot with, to ally oneself with; share the life and fortunes of: She had cast her lot with the bohemian crowd.
23. draw or cast lots, to settle a question by the use of lots: They drew lots to see who would go first.

{Origin: bef. 950; 1805–15 for def. 14; ME; OE hlot portion, choice, decision; c. D lot, ON hlutr; akin to OE hlīet, G Los, ON hlaut, Goth hlauts lot}

—Related forms
lotter, noun

—Synonyms
4. part, quota. 7. plot, parcel. 12. group, crowd, gang.Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

:P

[KamaAina]

19. Actually, around here, a lot is around 5000 square feet

how big of a house can you build on two words? :P

[pokerfan]

20. I don't have alot of pet peeves, irregardless

I have major psychotic hatreds!
-- George Carlin

cite / site - this is one I see a lot online.

birth / berth - this one drives me nuts. I read a lot of sports forums and I am fucking sick and tired of seeing 'my team earned a birth in the tournament.' (No they did not, but your mother gave birth to an idiot.) I've even seen the usage defended as meaning 'new life, born again' in the post-season.

it's / its - I use it as a metric of basic literacy.

I'm sure that more will come to me.

[Blue Diadem]

23. My brain knows that but my fingers won't comply.

:shrug:

I blame it all on my thumb for refusing to hit the space key.

[Cant trust em]

24. Suuure. Blame it on typos.

One day it's helpful because you can grasp objects and manipulate tools, the next it gets thrown under the bus.

What a flip-flopping thumbist.

:puke:

[Teaser]

28. If you hadn't posted this, I would of.

.

[hvn_nbr_2]

29. Alright all ready. nt

[Va Lefty]

30. That's alot of work to hit that space key

[Blue_In_AK]

31. And so is all right.

"Alright" drives me crazy.

[triguy46]

32. You have an excellent point their.

[Breeze54]

34. Your Rant & whine about the silly stuff to much er... ALOT!

:rofl:

J/K

I suspect people don't hit the space key hard enough, not misspelling at all.

Tolerance is a virtue. ;)

:toast:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

35. Then there was the employment ad I heard about.....

they wanted a nurse with menstruative ability.

Mom's friend said, "Sorry, I've already gone through the change!". :rofl:

:rofl:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

36. to, too and two ...

That is my pet peeve

[Lil Missy]

37. Irregardless, its used alot, pacifically in emails.

[applegrove]

38. I know that in the bottom of my heart but I always spell it alot anyways.

It just seems to look better somehow. Sorry

[madinmaryland]

39. Sure are alot of replies to this thread!!1!!

[Cant trust em]

40. I must have touched a nerve.

[jobycom]

41. Yes, but two words are not alot. nt

[hunter]

42. Alert on all threads with spelling and grammar errors.

See how far that gits ya.

[Throd]

43. Bitchen