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Some explanation on the above word "alotta"...language is spoken with a fluidness that combines words together in a sentence with a tendency to make them sound like one word. English is not the only language to do this. In fact, that is why most people have trouble picking up what somebody is saying in another language even if they have studied the vocabulary sufficiently to understand what each word was being said. But native speakers have short-cuts that do not impede the speaker from getting his point across to another native speaker of the same language. It is a tool to be used in poetry, where vowel sounds sometimes have to be combined and not seperated to get the right count of syllables. In everyday speaking, a person chooses to say,
Whatcha want? = What do you...?
Can I have another'n = another one.
Wanna go with me? = Do you want to...
Therefore, what is happening is that people who use these language short-cuts are deciding that if they can speak that way, then they can write it that way. Thus, they spell out the words phonetically if there were ever a reason for doing so, mostly to show the "casual tone" of the conversation in written format. That casual tone is the key to the language discrepencies.
For words like alot...well...people use that word as one word...so it gets written as one word. Alot.
By the way...As I have mentioned before, how are we to learn what is considered right in the rest of the world if our own educators are teaching us "alot" in the schools we attend? Thus, we speak with the education we are taught with...whether in the classroom or on the street.
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