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by Andres on April 12th, 2009
I am a teacher and I actually prefer the WORD "alot." It should be a legal word used to denote "a large amount of something." Whereas "a lot" (two words) should be used only to describe a "piece of ground" (as in, "You may build your house on a lot at the end of the street"). And as opposed to "allot" which means to "allow someone to have a certain set amount of something," such as "an allotment of money." So I do use "alot" and will will continue to do so!
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You're reading Are you aware that "alot' is wrong? "Alot" should be spelled "a lot". It's TWO separate words, not one; not a compound word either. Is this common error anyone else's pet peeve?
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Wow! I hope that as a teacher, you're not teaching it the way you think it SHOULD be done as opposed to the way it IS.
I know of teachers who use "yeah" instead of "yes", "unuh" instead of "no", "Huh?" instead of "Excuse me?", "gonna" instead of "going to", "wanna" instead of "want to", etc. (I hope I've gotten the point across.)
It's bad enough that all of these errors, (and, yes, they are errors) are prevalent in everyday (notice I didn't write "every day") written and oral usage; it's even worse when the very person who has a second-highest majority of the influence/responsibility of teaching our studentes are the grossest violators.
Why shouldn't math instructors teach that 1 + 1 = 3 if that's what they strongly believe?
How about if science courses were to proclaim that the Arctic is located in the Southern Hemishpre?
Civics classes should change the name of the American Revolution to the "First FIRST World War".
Lastly, physical education should advocate eating junk food and sitting around for the majority of the day; after all, it's what most people do anyway, so if you can't beat them, join them. Right?
by Randy D on September 24th, 2011