all right or alright?

[ctivnan]

ALL RIGHT or ALRIGHT


I used to think that both forms are possible, BUT THEY ARE NOT. :ouch:

According to the Element's of Style (4th ED.), the word "all right" is idiomatic in familiar speech as a detached phrase in the sense "Agreed," or "Go ahead," or "O.K." Properly written as two words.

The American Heritage Book of English writes that despite the appearance of alright in the works of such well-known writers as Flannery O’Connor, Langston Hughes, and James Joyce, the merger of all and right has never been accepted as standard.

But if you decide to use alright, especially in formal writing, you run the risk that some of your readers will view it as an error, while others may think you are willfully breaking convention.

Is everything all right, then? :lol:

[juan]

This is clear for me now.

[lasher]

ALL RIGHT or ALRIGHT


I used to think that both forms are possible, BUT THEY ARE NOT. :ouch:

According to the Element's of Style (4th ED.), the word "all right" is idiomatic in familiar speech as a detached phrase in the sense "Agreed," or "Go ahead," or "O.K." Properly written as two words.

The American Heritage Book of English writes that despite the appearance of alright in the works of such well-known writers as Flannery O’Connor, Langston Hughes, and James Joyce, the merger of all and right has never been accepted as standard.

But if you decide to use alright, especially in formal writing, you run the risk that some of your readers will view it as an error, while others may think you are willfully breaking convention.

Is everything all right, then? :lol:



Hey now MsC,

How about something like this?

As soon as everything is all right we can begin, alright?

Would this fly in the business world?:)

[ctivnan]

Hey now MsC,

How about something like this?

As soon as everything is all right we can begin, alright?

Would this fly in the business world?:)

Hi there lasher!

All right, then. :laugh1:

Alright, although considered nonstandard, is a variant spelling of all right, so the sentence is possible.

However, if we want to be a stickler, then it should both be 'all right'. Both expressions in your sentence comes under the meaning of 'all right' - first is 'permissible or allowable', and the one in the tag is 'Okay'.