On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 12:03:51 -0400 "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt...@o-sinc.com> wrote:
> That is ALLOT of work to fiddle Unrelated to thread and is not intended as a "I'm better because I grammar well" thing, but this drives me nuts and I've bitten my tongue on it for months. But you use that word that isn't a word in the context you mean, frequently. You want *two* words, "a lot", which mean "a large volume of" "allot" is a *verb*, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/allot#Verb Which means "to proportion out" By analogy, this makes as much sense as if you'd written: "That is a distributing of work to fiddle" Or "That is an apportion of work to fiddle" Which is nonsense. I myself used to make this mistake, and now I just avoid the word in entirety as a defensive strategy. "I use that word a lot" -> "I use that word frequently" "It is a lot of work" -> "It is substantial work" "I have a lot of time" -> "I have significant time" "I will allot you 5 units of rice" -> "I will apportion you 5 units of rice" ( I try not to play grammar nazi, but when you make only one mistake that I notice, I ignore it, but when you make the same single mistake over and over and over again, on a daily basis, I feel somebody should point it out. Please accept my apologies for having some flavour of mental disorder for being triggered by this )
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