Question for the flist-mind

[thismaz]

Dear flist,

I think, for once, this is a question directed more towards the Brits on my flist.

The word 'alright'.

Is that an acceptable spelling?

Or would you always spell it as two words?

Would you feel differently, depending on whether you were writing narrative or dialogue?

Any and all opinion welcome.

*hugs wonderful flist-mind*

Comments

[thismaz.livejournal.com]

When the UK has a land mass equal to approximately 2% of the US and is about the same distance North to South (including the Shetlands) as California, there would have to be quite a bit of stretching. So, maybe, not following the latitude lines, so much as fanning out across the Atlantic *g*

[smwright.livejournal.com]

Very good point. Mike is cognition/linguistically inclined. I'll have to chat with him about this again.

[thismaz.livejournal.com]

Somehow, I think where the original British immigrants settled (and therefore where specific accents or dialects congregated) would have more to do with the port of origin and the wave of/reason for immigration. I don't know enough about that. I know that settlers were promised land in what is now the southern states and I know that indentured labourers were sent to work that land, but I don't know where they were sent from. As for the northern states, I know even less.