On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 17:53, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 06:31, Duncan wrote: >> The term "a lot" is two separate words (and isn't considered >> formally correct either, BTW, "altho" colloquial usage is >> recognized). It means, as you were
> What the hell do you mean, "isn't considered formally correct"? I've > never seen any authority at all that considers "a lot" to be > colloquial or vulgar. It's perfectly standard English. Except that it doesn't mean "many", it means "one unit of" (one allotment of). "A lot of chok poi" means, strictly, one budle of it, not "much chok poi". I'm happy as long as you don't use "alot" or "allot", it really grates on the soul of my inner grammar Nazi. (-: For that matter, so does "want for you" - WTF is the "for" doing there? And so do bass-ackwards dates. :-) Cheers; Leon
