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@Felthry we usually type "all right" but we voted "alright" because there are a lot of grammaticasters who insist that "alright" is Not Allowed and we want to defy them

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@packbat @Felthry

Yeah, the only reason "alright" is considered wrong is that, unlike "already" and "almost", the dictionary was written before it developed.

@packbat @Felthry

I voted for "all right" because that's how I learned it, but I've figured out how to be all right with people writing "alright".

@Felthry @packbat

What would you think of the hyphen in "to-day" and "to-morrow", which is how they were written about a century ago?

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@KinkyTurtle @packbat that also looks wrong, because in modern english it kind of is

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