Re: This day

On 22/03/07, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> On 3/22/07, Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@...> wrote:
> > Wrong. "all right" in the sense of "all of them right" is spelt as
> > I've spelt it. In the sense of "ok", the spelling is "alright".
>
> There is no way you can justify that as hard and fast rule.  The
> spelling "all right" is perfectly acceptable in either sense, even
> though  the spelling "alright" is generally only acceptable in the
> one.
Nevertheless, it invalidates the statement that there is "no way" to
disambiguate between the two.

A quick look on "reference.com" describes "alright" as "non-standard",
but I think in Britain most would say that the spelling "all right"
for the second is incorrect.

Jeff
>
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> Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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