A few days ago
Why do so many people spell (a lot) Wrong???
Why do so many people spell (a lot) Wrong???
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A few days ago
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I don’t think it’s laziness or illiteracy…
Most people don’t know.
I didn’t until… like… a couple of years ago…
You rarely see ‘a lot’ used in books that you might read in school. Most authors or textbooks would say ‘many’ or ‘a great number of’ or something like that.
So it’s probably just ignorance — they don’t know.
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A few days ago
I think that people don’t spell well because they don’t read much. You have to SEE words before you know how to spell them, most of the time; simply hearing them won’t do (certainly not for English!). As people have turned more and more to TV, computers, etc., for entertainment, they’ve quit reading, and that means no visual association for many words.
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A few days ago
Laziness?
Or maybe those people got used to the “Text Language” –> Spellings you use when you text or use your mobiles.
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A few days ago
I think subconsciously they are using “a lot” the same way they treat “lots” (that is, as one word), as in “lots of apples” / “alot of apples”. It makes a weird kind of sense if you think about it.
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A few days ago
Lazy and/or illiterate.
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