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IloveJAM
Frequents Banana Slings
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« joe » wrote: From Sexual Harrasment
Quote: Todd Packer: Are you kidding? Everyone knows why! You don't know? Okay, check this out. Al lright.
should be "All right." 
Actually, shouldn't it be "alright"? In many places it says "all right" when it should be "alright".
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Andy
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Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 7:00 pm |
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« IloveJAM » wrote: « joe » wrote: From Sexual Harrasment
Quote: Todd Packer: Are you kidding? Everyone knows why! You don't know? Okay, check this out. Al lright.
should be "All right."
Actually, shouldn't it be "alright"? In many places it says "all right" when it should be "alright".
I was trained as a newspaper copy editor by the AP's rule. That all right is the proper usage. But you can find other sources to support the alright camp too.
OK, I'm done nerding out over grammar. Both uses of the word could be argued as the correct one, so take your pick. 
According to the The Associated Press Stylebook:
all right (adv.) Never alright. Hyhenate only if used colloquially as a compound modifier: He was an all-right guy.
According to Merriam-Webster.com:
alright (adv., adj.) - The one-word spelling alright appeared some 75 years after all right itself had reappeared from a 400-year-long absence. Since the early 20th century some critics have insisted alright is wrong, but it has its defenders and its users. It is less frequent than all right but remains in common use especially in journalistic and business publications. It is quite common in fictional dialogue, and is used occasionally in other writing <the first two years of medical school were alright — Gertrude Stein>. |
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joe
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Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 5:19 pm |
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whoa. didn't know there was a big debate over the ways in which to use it. either way it's definitely not "al lright"
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IloveJAM
Frequents Banana Slings
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 3:06 pm |
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« Andy » wrote: « IloveJAM » wrote: « joe » wrote: From Sexual Harrasment
Quote: Todd Packer: Are you kidding? Everyone knows why! You don't know? Okay, check this out. Al lright.
should be "All right."
Actually, shouldn't it be "alright"? In many places it says "all right" when it should be "alright".
I was trained as a newspaper copy editor by the AP's rule. That all right is the proper usage. But you can find other sources to support the alright camp too.
OK, I'm done nerding out over grammar. Both uses of the word could be argued as the correct one, so take your pick.
According to the The Associated Press Stylebook:
all right (adv.) Never alright. Hyhenate only if used colloquially as a compound modifier: He was an all-right guy.
According to Merriam-Webster.com:
alright (adv., adj.) - The one-word spelling alright appeared some 75 years after all right itself had reappeared from a 400-year-long absence. Since the early 20th century some critics have insisted alright is wrong, but it has its defenders and its users. It is less frequent than all right but remains in common use especially in journalistic and business publications. It is quite common in fictional dialogue, and is used occasionally in other writing <the first two years of medical school were alright — Gertrude Stein>.
Oh, ok. I've always learned it "alright" (meaning something like "ok") but maybe that's just because of where i'm from.
I just looked at the same site you got your information from, Andy and what i got out of it was "all right" is more formal and "alright" is more informal. So...
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Andy
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 5:56 pm |
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« IloveJAM » wrote: « Andy » wrote: « IloveJAM » wrote: « joe » wrote: From Sexual Harrasment
Quote: Todd Packer: Are you kidding? Everyone knows why! You don't know? Okay, check this out. Al lright.
should be "All right."
Actually, shouldn't it be "alright"? In many places it says "all right" when it should be "alright".
I was trained as a newspaper copy editor by the AP's rule. That all right is the proper usage. But you can find other sources to support the alright camp too.
OK, I'm done nerding out over grammar. Both uses of the word could be argued as the correct one, so take your pick.
According to the The Associated Press Stylebook:
all right (adv.) Never alright. Hyhenate only if used colloquially as a compound modifier: He was an all-right guy.
According to Merriam-Webster.com:
alright (adv., adj.) - The one-word spelling alright appeared some 75 years after all right itself had reappeared from a 400-year-long absence. Since the early 20th century some critics have insisted alright is wrong, but it has its defenders and its users. It is less frequent than all right but remains in common use especially in journalistic and business publications. It is quite common in fictional dialogue, and is used occasionally in other writing <the first two years of medical school were alright — Gertrude Stein>.
Oh, ok. I've always learned it "alright" (meaning something like "ok") but maybe that's just because of where i'm from.
I just looked at the same site you got your information from, Andy and what i got out of it was "all right" is more formal and "alright" is more informal. So...
I agree with that too. It sounds like people tend to use alright more informally, like in conversations with each other. If that's true, then, alright would be a logical way to "quote" someone. |
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toby is the devil
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Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:22 am |
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« Andy » wrote: « IloveJAM » wrote: « Andy » wrote: « IloveJAM » wrote: « joe » wrote: From Sexual Harrasment
Quote: Todd Packer: Are you kidding? Everyone knows why! You don't know? Okay, check this out. Al lright.
should be "All right."
Actually, shouldn't it be "alright"? In many places it says "all right" when it should be "alright".
I was trained as a newspaper copy editor by the AP's rule. That all right is the proper usage. But you can find other sources to support the alright camp too.
OK, I'm done nerding out over grammar. Both uses of the word could be argued as the correct one, so take your pick.
According to the The Associated Press Stylebook:
all right (adv.) Never alright. Hyhenate only if used colloquially as a compound modifier: He was an all-right guy.
According to Merriam-Webster.com:
alright (adv., adj.) - The one-word spelling alright appeared some 75 years after all right itself had reappeared from a 400-year-long absence. Since the early 20th century some critics have insisted alright is wrong, but it has its defenders and its users. It is less frequent than all right but remains in common use especially in journalistic and business publications. It is quite common in fictional dialogue, and is used occasionally in other writing <the first two years of medical school were alright — Gertrude Stein>.
Oh, ok. I've always learned it "alright" (meaning something like "ok") but maybe that's just because of where i'm from.
I just looked at the same site you got your information from, Andy and what i got out of it was "all right" is more formal and "alright" is more informal. So...
I agree with that too. It sounds like people tend to use alright more informally, like in conversations with each other. If that's true, then, alright would be a logical way to "quote" someone.
I know what's right, but I'm not gonna say, because you're all jerks who didn't come see my band last night.
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Adam
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joe
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Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 1:07 pm |
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just noticed this little one in The Surplus
Quote: Dwight: Manure covers up the small of the slaughterhouse.
should be smell and not small.
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joe
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Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 7:37 am |
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Quote: David: Look, his is important, Michael.
should be this instead of his.
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IloveJAM
Frequents Banana Slings
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Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 4:22 pm |
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In "Niagara"
Quote: Michael: Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Up. I ball the entire time. I can not watch Pixar.
It should be 'bawl'
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IloveJAM
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Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 7:04 pm |
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Stress Relief
Quote: CPR trainer: A-B-C. Okay? And hat stands for... airway, breathing and circulation.
Should be "that" not "hat"
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