Of all the egregious mistakes made in the written English language, one of the dopiest and more puzzling could be the one where people "forget" to type in a space between the words "a" and "lot", also known as "alot".

I mean, the only word that could be the possible source of confusion for these sad souls is the word "allot"  which, while pronounced exactly the same, is not exactly a word that comes easily to most of the people who are making the mistake in the first place. 

It's an unexplainable mistake, in my eyes.  I mean, if people took three seconds to reread, they would realize that the pronunciation isn't even the same: "a lot" is "uh LAHT" and "alot" would be…. "AY-laht"?  "AAH-lit"?  I don't even know exactly, but surely THERE IS A DIFFERENCE!

Alot: It's more than just a careless mistake.  It's just plain evil.

It's a lot evil.

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