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alright is spelled correctly though?

yeah, it’s not.  ‘alright’ is a colloquial spelling.  ‘all right’ is the grammatically correct one.  😉

“Alright” is a word in Australian English though. It’s in our dictionary. 

https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/features/word/search/alright/

So depending on where everyone is from, “alright” might be totally alright! 

oooo, i did not know that!  is it always spelled that way?  meaning, do you also have ‘all right’ or is it always, 100% of the time ‘alright’?

It’s varies. I guess the best way would be that if you’re talking in absolutes or something measurable then you would use “all right”. As in, “the answers were all right”. But if you mean “okay” then you use “alright”. 

Alright and okay are fascinating words academically

both mean fine, if you said the answers to the questions were alright it means something different to the answers to the questions were all right

both words are adjectives 

now alright is an elision which actually does not share a meaning with its separated parts, so all right has a different definition [it’s two words so has a conjoined definition]

and already and altogether are both accepted but alright which has a primarily informal base does not [alot is a cryptid and the reason why I’m fascinated by English as a science because I used to use it all the time and this teacher once spent over an hour explaining to me that it was right but the language was wrong because grammatically there’s no reason why not but it doesn’t and it’s the word most kids are most likely to elide on their own]

an elision is when you take two words together to make a new word and is super common – for example fortnight and senn’night both of which are old english, a fortnight for the americans at the back is forteen nights and a senn’night [which has long since fallen out of use] is seven nights or a week

cybernetic organism is elided into cyborg

but every now and again you get words like alright where the elision is both recognisable for what it was and yet is entirely distinct

Reblogging for the language knowledge! 

I am a sucker for words.