penni, we -- or perhaps I should say I -- eschew the reputation of "nasty, superior, condescending, arrogant grammarmeisters."
I personally would prefer us to have the {deserved) reputation of "urbane, civil, refined yet humorous, open-minded, and intellectually curious lovers of language." (I know, I know -- a lot of tautologies there. And you will see that I am open-minded enough to have finally dropped my opposition to the American practice of putting the period inside the quotation marks.)
In fact, I am thinking of changing the title of the thread to "SI Grammar, Spelling, and Style Lab," to emphasize that we are, first and foremost, Language Lovers. What do you think of the idea?
Now, to your substantive point: all right, alright, allright...
"All right" is of course -- and as you know <g> -- correct. But..."alright" is slowly and steadily gaining ground. Note the following ominous notation (emphasis mine):
"Alright" is currently unacceptable as a written word, though the situation is likely to change.In the meantime, write it as two separate words.
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Incidentally, penni, one of the "anthologies" in our new Grammar Clubhouse is a list of good on-line resources on style, grammar, etc.
I stressed that it is a preliminary list, so any further contributions would be greatly appreciated. And we need another anthology devoted to good books on Our Subject. At one time or another, you recommended quite a few good ones. But it is hard (time-consuming, anyway) to find your recommendations by combing through old posts. Can you recall your favorites, so that we can start putting together an anthology?
Joan
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