Natural History

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1. on April 12, 2011 at 10:08 pm HTTrainer

   Spell check reminds me of this error with increasing regularity.

   
   
2. on April 13, 2011 at 1:58 pm Jess

   The books I am adapting use ‘alright’ all the time. I keep changing it.

   
   
   • on April 13, 2011 at 3:27 pm Dave

     So how many hamsters have been violated so far? And how many more are unreported?

     The underreported status of abused hamsters is no laughing matters.

     
     
     • on April 13, 2011 at 5:08 pm Jess

       So many I couldn’t keep count even if I wanted to. It’s a veritable orgy of hamster violation.

       
       
3. on April 15, 2011 at 9:18 am Jan

   It is one of those words that has become accepted in the written form. Our language is constantly evolving. I’m sure that “texting” is going to bring in even more changes. Every year there is a list of newly accepted words. Just imagine what a person from 100 years ago would think of today’s dictionary!

   al·right   
   [awl-rahyt]
   –adverb
   all right.
   —Can be confused:  all right, alright (see usage note at the current entry ).

   —Usage note
   The form alright as a one-word spelling of the phrase all right in all of its senses probably arose by analogy with such words as already and altogether. Although alright is a common spelling in written dialogue and in other types of informal writing, all right is used in more formal, edited writing.

   
   
4. on April 15, 2011 at 9:19 am Jan

   That was from dictionary.com

   
   
5. on April 15, 2011 at 1:10 pm M.R.S.

   Now, if someone could just find a way to eliminate “you know”/ “Yuh know” from speech…good thing the poor hamsters aren’t involved in that.

   I’m waiting to hear an interviewer interrupt (after a dozen or so “y’know”s) and say “If I knew, I wouldn’t be asking you!”

   
   

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