The Cambridge Guide to English Usage (which I invested in after my tangle with a certain archive) says that the controversy over alright is emotional rather than linguistic or logical, and points out that alright conveys a range of meanings that all right doesn't, because all right implies 'correct', whereas alright can imply, for example, 'barely tolerable'. It concludes that 'alright is there to be used without any second thoughts'.
I've always thought that whatever happens between speech marks is pretty much up to the writer -- conveying speech patterns, and all -- but, of course, my favourite archive disagrees!
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Date: 2011-07-30 01:52 pm (UTC)I've always thought that whatever happens between speech marks is pretty much up to the writer -- conveying speech patterns, and all -- but, of course, my favourite archive disagrees!