Funny though. I had a teacher tell me that once, and every time I looked it up it turned out she was right. I guess you just have ifferent dictionaries than I.
In any case, it wouldn't matter even if it wasn't in a dictionary. Language does change. If everyone's using a word a certain way, that word usage eventually _becomes_ correct.
My dictionary has a special little box to discuss "alright" It says the one word spelling appeared about 75 years after "all right" reappeared after a 400 year long absence.
"Since the early 20th century some critics have insisted alright is wrong, but is has its defenders and its users." ( blah blah blah... and then they cite it as having been used by Gertrude Stein.)
I like Gertrude Stein but her usage is hardly normative!!
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Date: 2002-12-16 10:02 pm (UTC)From:Re: ..
Date: 2002-12-17 06:43 am (UTC)From:Funny though. I had a teacher tell me that once, and every time I looked it up it turned out she was right. I guess you just have ifferent dictionaries than I.
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Date: 2002-12-17 07:29 am (UTC)From:Re: ..
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Date: 2002-12-17 09:14 am (UTC)From:VERY fortunately
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Date: 2002-12-17 02:46 pm (UTC)From:I'm wondering when "alls," and "yous" will show up in the dictionaries.
(thanks Blonnie)
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Date: 2002-12-17 11:57 am (UTC)From:Dictionaries take the path of either
1) recording words in use, or
2) recording language in use
lots take the second path, and as a result some horrible things are "in the dictionary". Like "ain't".....
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Date: 2002-12-17 01:34 pm (UTC)From:In this case, though, it's a word.
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Date: 2002-12-17 05:33 am (UTC)From:Or meaning changes....e.g. things 'impacting'......
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Date: 2002-12-17 06:45 am (UTC)From:But no, this word didn't really bother me.
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Date: 2002-12-17 07:07 am (UTC)From:But the misuse of impact does.
The dictionary people agree, while conceding that the usage will eventually become standard....:-(
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Date: 2002-12-17 09:14 pm (UTC)From:-Calvin
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Date: 2002-12-17 04:14 pm (UTC)From:"Since the early 20th century some critics have insisted alright is wrong, but is has its defenders and its users." ( blah blah blah...
and then they cite it as having been used by Gertrude Stein.)
I like Gertrude Stein but her usage is hardly normative!!
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Date: 2002-12-18 02:21 am (UTC)From:And does alcoves mean every single cove?
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Date: 2002-12-17 09:16 pm (UTC)From:Sheesh.
:-D