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Re: This day

From:<li_sasxsek@...>
Date:Friday, March 23, 2007, 20:18
li [Larry Sulky] mi tulis la

> Can you (plural) point me to any English dictionary that considers > "alright" (which I mentally pronounce "Al Wright" :-) ) to be a > standard spelling in any context whatever? I have always used "all > right" to mean that something is okay (as well as to mean that the > entirety of something is correct). I didn't realise that it had yet > undergone a transformation parallel to "all ready" => "already" or > "all days" => "always".
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alright http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/a/a0227200.html http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/a/a0217700.html http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/alright I've never had any issue with "alright" but "alrighty" or "alrighty then" are really annoying.

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>