Okay, I was just hopping over to your site for a quick minute to check out the SPN timeline, but I feel the need to defend your dilemma. Mostly because? I posted an incredibly smutty fic yesterday in which I noted that there really needs to be a usage dictionary of porn :) I hate not knowing with any consistency whether certain terms are one word or two, etc. (I'll not get into the specifics here!)
Anyway, like percysowner pointed out, traditionalists are against "alright" but it will probably be accepted even by them in the next few years. My usage dictionary notes that this has long been the case with "all together" / "altogether," and "all ready" / "already." But those words have been accepted since the Middle Ages, and "alright" is a lot newer.
So at least you're worrying about actual words and not smutty terms like I am! Your master's degree is clearly being put to better use than mine :D
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Date: 2012-09-08 06:47 pm (UTC)Anyway, like percysowner pointed out, traditionalists are against "alright" but it will probably be accepted even by them in the next few years. My usage dictionary notes that this has long been the case with "all together" / "altogether," and "all ready" / "already." But those words have been accepted since the Middle Ages, and "alright" is a lot newer.
So at least you're worrying about actual words and not smutty terms like I am! Your master's degree is clearly being put to better use than mine :D