USAGE: spelling of "alright"/"all right" (was Re: This day)

Ah, The Great "Al(l )right" Debate pops up again.  See much discussion here:

http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19990604

On 3/23/07, Larry Sulky <larrysulky@...> wrote:
> 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".
>
> --larry
>

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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