[Kevin art. Give me an alot]
The Alot [Alotis Americanus]
I really like you alot, mom.
Try to get rid of this? It’s incorrect. It’s wrong. The word is two separate words: a lot
A lot of people misspell this one, even the wealthy ones that can buy a lot with a building on it without batting an eyelash. That’s their lot in life. Tough. But you can be smarter if not richer.
Yes, yes, I admit: it’s misused a lot. And someday it will probably come around to being acceptedly spelled as one word, just like always (formerly all ways), and already (all ready not so long ago). Ok? Alright is marginal: all right? But for now, alot looks like shit on a page to anyone that’s moderately literate.
Most anyone can show you an ocelot in an animal book, but I defy you to show me an alot, as in: I want alot, with sprinkles on top.
Parse it: I = subject
want = verb
alot = what, a direct object? Therefore a noun, an alot? A sandwich? (an alot of balogna?)
with = preposition
sprinkles = noun phrase, object of the preposition ‘with’
Maybe the best reminder to yourself is for about the next year, every time you want to use the phrase a lot, to mean ‘mucho of something’, throw in the hole.
What? whole
Throw in the whole, right smack dab in the middle of the phrase: a lot
^
That should help a whole lot. To keep you from spelling it as one word. Unless you need
awholelot more help than I can give you. Really, it should help more than alittle.
In conclusion, it is the lot of the lottery winner to own a WHOLE lot of lots, some developed, some not, not a lot of them anyway. But none of them, developed or wild, is a perserve for the non-existant animal, visually related to the ocelot, called the North American alot, distinguised from its South American cousin soley by the sprinkles on top.
[Art: Kevin. A North American
alot doing alittle work.]