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Many of these examples have already undergone semantic bleaching (the process by which the original meanings are no longer applied to the term in certain contexts) and some are already beginning to undergo morphological reduction. Phonetic erosion is next, and then eventually obligatorification. Soon alot and "a lot" will be interchangeable. The former may completely eclipse the use of the latter eventually. Grammaticalisation is a natural linguistic process.

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