[cecnj]

You are wrong. "Alright" means "acceptable/okay" whereas "all right" means "all correct".

See Oxford English Dictionary: http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/5732?r...Advanced=false#

I am an English teacher. Not kidding.

Originally Posted by MadManofBethesda

But it's all right to make up words?

I hope you don't teach English.

(just kidding)

alright

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com...s-alright.aspx

[Buzz123]

Originally Posted by cecnj

You are wrong. "Alright" means "acceptable/okay" whereas "all right" means "all correct".

See Oxford English Dictionary: Home : Oxford English Dictionary#

I am an English teacher. Not kidding.

So you probably use "alright" alot ...or is it allot?

This one bothers me a lot.

Anyway, cecnj, now that you've made yourself feel smarter than this group by making the rest of us wrong, how many high schools per year are being built in Las Vegas? How many over the 20 year period between 1988 and 2008? As a teacher, maybe you have the "exact" answer.

As an aside ...you can look that up too ...most teachers I've ever encountered have only made the students wrong for not already (or is it all ready?) knowing what it is that they are supposed to be teaching them.

[cecnj]

The whole point is that I don't have the answer----that is why I read these posts, in the hope that I will learn. To hope for and expect sources for supposed "facts" is not too much to expect. It is also silly to assert anyone "feels smarter" by using language correctly. Certainly this board has never made me feel smarter in any way. I was called out on this thread for misusing "alright"---which I did not. I merely corrected the poster by explaning the difference between "alright" and "all aright". And "alot" isn't a word.

Originally Posted by Buzz123

So you probably use "alright" alot ...or is it allot?

This one bothers me a lot.

Anyway, cecnj, now that you've made yourself feel smarter than this group by making the rest of us wrong, how many high schools per year are being built in Las Vegas? How many over the 20 year period between 1988 and 2008? As a teacher, maybe you have the "exact" answer.

As an aside ...you can look that up too ...most teachers I've ever encountered have only made the students wrong for not already (or is it all ready?) knowing what it is that they are supposed to be teaching them.

[olecapt]

There will be a few more high schools built in the next years. There is still for instance a significant over crowding problem at Palo Verde and none of the neighboring schools have additional space.

All it needs to make that an emergency is for development in western Summerlin to increase which will likely happen in the next few years.

[Buzz123]

Originally Posted by cecnj

The whole point is that I don't have the answer----that is why I read these posts, in the hope that I will learn. To hope for and expect sources for supposed "facts" is not too much to expect. It is also silly to assert anyone "feels smarter" by using language correctly. Certainly this board has never made me feel smarter in any way. I was called out on this thread for misusing "alright"---which I did not. I merely corrected the poster by explaning (sp) the difference between "alright" and "all aright". And "alot" isn't a word.

You want the truth? You can't hand... oh, never mind. If you read my post you'll see that alot is a pet peeve of mine, so of course I do know that it is not a word, it is two words. It comes up here quite frequently though. Also, many dictionaries do not recognize 'alright' as "standard usage", so when it is used somebody's gonna object. Keep in mind that you fired the first shot ...and you forgot to duck.

Anywho, here is a list of Clark County Schools. Notice that it seems apparent the district grows so fast they might not quite keep up on Wiki, but I think it's pretty accurate from comparing it to other sites I've looked at. List of Clark County School District schools - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Here's the CCSD Wiki page: Clark County School District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Note that in the first line they say as of 2005 we were 5th largest, but on down the page they mention things that were dated 2010 so it looks like it is being updated frequently.

[Nolan05]

In the 5+ years we lived there, they opened at least 1 High School, 2 middle and 4 elementaries every year....I recall there were 2 years where 2 High Schools opened along with the 2 middle and 4 ele... New should start to level off as repairs are needed at some of the older schools, but older in Vegas is pretty new to most of the country. Having come back to Ohio, and hoping to get back to Vegas soon, the middle and high schools in our district were both built in 1961, and the 4 elementary schools were from the 20's(even heated with coal you had to put down a chute) until this year and they made a centralized one. I think I spelled everything right and used it in the proper context!

[MadManofBethesda]

Originally Posted by olecapt

Also picking your source selectively. The point is arguable.

<the first two years of medical school were alright — Gertrude Stein>.

I would go with Stein...

I'll see your Gertrude Stein, and raise you with Kingsley Amis, Bill Bryson and Robert Burchfield.

Kingsley Amis The King's English 1997: "I still feel that to inscribe alright is gross, crass, coarse and to be avoided, and I now say so. Its interdiction is as pure an example as possible of a rule without a reason, and in my case may well show nothing but how tenacious a hold early training can take."

Bill Bryson Troublesome Words 1997: "A good case could be made for shortening all right to alright. ... English, however, is a fickle tongue and alright continues to be looked on as illiterate and unacceptable and consequently it ought never to appear in serious writing."

Robert Burchfield The New Fowler's Modern English Usage 1997: "Alright ... is the demotic form. It is preferred, to judge from the evidence I have assembled, by popular sources like the British magazines The Face ... New Musical Express and Sounds, the American magazine Black World, the Australian journal Southerly, the Socialist Worker, by popular singers ... and hardly ever by writers of standing ... It is commonplace in private correspondence, especially in that of the moderately educated young. Almost all other printed works in Britain and abroad use the more traditional form ... "

alright vs all right - Common Mistakes and Confusing Words in English - Learn English Mistakes

[Buzz123]

Originally Posted by Nolan05

In the 5+ years we lived there, they opened at least 1 High School, 2 middle and 4 elementaries every year....I recall there were 2 years where 2 High Schools opened along with the 2 middle and 4 ele... New should start to level off as repairs are needed at some of the older schools, but older in Vegas is pretty new to most of the country. Having come back to Ohio, and hoping to get back to Vegas soon, the middle and high schools in our district were both built in 1961, and the 4 elementary schools were from the 20's(even heated with coal you had to put down a chute) until this year and they made a centralized one. I think I spelled everything right and used it in the proper context!

That was not bad for Buckeye. Ha, ha.

[Buzz123]

Originally Posted by MadManofBethesda

I'll see your Gertrude Stein, and raise you with Kingsley Amis, Bill Bryson and Robert Burchfield.

Kingsley Amis The King's English 1997: "I still feel that to inscribe alright is gross, crass, coarse and to be avoided, and I now say so. Its interdiction is as pure an example as possible of a rule without a reason, and in my case may well show nothing but how tenacious a hold early training can take."

Bill Bryson Troublesome Words 1997: "A good case could be made for shortening all right to alright. ... English, however, is a fickle tongue and alright continues to be looked on as illiterate and unacceptable and consequently it ought never to appear in serious writing."

Robert Burchfield The New Fowler's Modern English Usage 1997: "Alright ... is the demotic form. It is preferred, to judge from the evidence I have assembled, by popular sources like the British magazines The Face ... New Musical Express and Sounds, the American magazine Black World, the Australian journal Southerly, the Socialist Worker, by popular singers ... and hardly ever by writers of standing ... It is commonplace in private correspondence, especially in that of the moderately educated young. Almost all other printed works in Britain and abroad use the more traditional form ... "

alright vs all right - Common Mistakes and Confusing Words in English - Learn English Mistakes

So there by golly. Thanks for the site. I keep a file on those, not that I read them often enough. Funny that 'alright' doesn't bother me that much, but spelling a lot as 'alot' drives me crazy, and 'allot' is even worse.

[unf0rgiven6262]

alright guys, talk about a de-railed thread. I tend to see this allot