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• "alright"

  (Usage Disputes)
  
  

  
     The spelling "alright" is recorded from 1887.  It was defended
  by Fowler (in one of the Society for Pure English tracts, not in
  MEU), on the analogy of "almighty" and "altogether", and on the
  grounds that "The answers are alright" (= "The answers are O.K.") is
  less ambiguous than "The answers are all right" (which could mean
  "All the answers are right").  But it is still widely condemned.

  
  
  Source: [Mark Israel, 'Usage Disputes: "alright"', The alt.usage.english FAQ file,(line 1370), (29 Sept 1997)]
  
  
  
  

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