"dont isn't even a word"

[Zeldy]

Embarrassingly, attempting to correct someone's grammar on Facebook by saying "don't is 'do not' you meant dont'" for other people to then say "what? dont isn't even a word" made me realize that I had made up my own word. In my head, "don't" reads as "do not", and so it isn't always applicable or make sense in some sentences! but how embarrassing!

I blame my English Literature teacher last year who beat into us how we should never abbreviate in English - as in English you're marked on your use of language so to use abbreviations like "won't", "isn't" and "i'd" to think of some examples was a complete no-no. This is how 'dont' came about, as "don't" = DO NOT.

Have you ever made up a word and been so adamant it exists? I blame my teacher! How embarrassing though, to try to correct someone and say something wrong yourself..

[Loony BoB]

I once "made up" the word investigatory and it turns out it was a word and I'd used it accurately. Go figure.

I also prefer writing scarey to scary. I don't know why. It just sits better with me!

[No.78]

I'm still in denial about "alot". "Alot" SHOULD BE A WORD.

[Cuchulainn]

I'm still in denial about "alot". "Alot" SHOULD BE A WORD.

it will be soon enough joining it's sister 'aplenty'. Use aplenty in the meantime.

[Mo-Nercy]

When I was a kid, it took me a long time before it finally got through to me that the word was 'separate' not 'seperate'.

[Unbreakable Will]

I'm still in denial about "alot". "Alot" SHOULD BE A WORD.

[Shiny]

I really dislike how eventhough, alot, and, atleast aren't words.

[Chris]

"Definatley" or "Definatly". Drives me insane.

[BarelySeeAtAll]

Hating the whole alot thing, everyone types it and it drives me insane because

IT'S NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN

Just saying.

Mo-Nercy, remember separate has "a rat" in it ;D my Graphic Products taught us that. Odd.

Never make up words. Stay true to the dictionary and Windows Word. Always.

[Captain Maxx Power]

Please, dont is a perfectly cromulent word.

[Jings]

Please, dont is a perfectly cromulent word.

You have embiggened this thread, good sir.

[Rantz]

I've never constricated a word in my life.

[Ouch!]

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.

EMBRACE CHANGE.

[BarelySeeAtAll]

EMBRACE CHANGE.

Here's a new word for you:

NO

[Raistlin]

You all are horrible, horrible people. "Alot," "alright," and "definately" ARE NOT WORDS AND SHOULD NEVER BE WORDS.