http://www.oxbridgeediting.co.uk/blog/%e2%80%98is-alright-all-right%e2%80%99-%e2%80%93-a-guide-to-abbreviations/ Oxbridge Proofreading and Editing resource blog Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:41:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.oxbridgeediting.co.uk/blog/%e2%80%98is-alright-all-right%e2%80%99-%e2%80%93-a-guide-to-abbreviations/comment-page-1/#comment-431 John Schofield Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:25:54 +0000 http://www.oxbridgeediting.com/blog/?p=126#comment-431 Our family, friends and business associates have been using "alright" over at least the last 100 years to mean "free of problems". It has never included "all" (i.e. every instance) in its meaning - "all right" to us is a totally different expression and we would not use it in the same context. Therefore I insist that I know what I mean when I say "alright", it must be counted as a correct word and it has a quite different meaning from "all right". Examples are: "Are you feeling alright?" - "Will it work alright?" - "Alright, I'll do that" - "Alright, now please listen to my version" - "It will be alright on the night". The word "all" would not be appropriate in any of these cases and "right" would often not apply either. Our family, friends and business associates have been using “alright” over at least the last 100 years to mean “free of problems”. It has never included “all” (i.e. every instance) in its meaning – “all right” to us is a totally different expression and we would not use it in the same context. Therefore I insist that I know what I mean when I say “alright”, it must be counted as a correct word and it has a quite different meaning from “all right”. Examples are: “Are you feeling alright?” – “Will it work alright?” – “Alright, I’ll do that” – “Alright, now please listen to my version” – “It will be alright on the night”. The word “all” would not be appropriate in any of these cases and “right” would often not apply either.

]]> http://www.oxbridgeediting.co.uk/blog/%e2%80%98is-alright-all-right%e2%80%99-%e2%80%93-a-guide-to-abbreviations/comment-page-1/#comment-35 PAUL Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:47:28 +0000 http://www.oxbridgeediting.com/blog/?p=126#comment-35 Excellent and well written. Thank you for this. Excellent and well written. Thank you for this.

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