Re: This day

Jeff 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".
 >>

That certainly should be the case, but according to prescription,
it isn't.  "Alright" is not an acceptable spelling, no matter what the
intended meaning.  It should be, though, given the paradigm:

My suitcases are all ready.
I'm already done.

The answers are all right.
I got the answers alright.

So I would say that there should be a way to distinguish them,
but that if you obey the standards, there isn't--at least not in
America.  In fact, I wrote a post about it on my error list log:

http://dedalvs.free.fr/wg/search_english.php

Search for error number 12.

-David
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