Why would someone insist that "alot" is a word and call me a dummy for saying it isn't?

They blocked you for being a grammar nazi, why does it matter? Why do you feel the need to correct their spelling as if it’s homework?

I remember learning that 'alot' wasn't a word in kindergarten lol

It's such a simple thing to Google and learn of, yet that person decided to be ignorant and nasty about it

Because so many people have used it as a single word for SOOO long that they feel it's a word via popular usage? Or, from what i found online...

"This spelling of 'a lot' is frequent in informal writing but not generally accepted by arbiters of English usage. Others view it as a legitimate contraction. Some occurrences of alot in print may be typographical errors.

1993, The Columbia Guide to Standard American English calls alot “substandard” and notes that it is “increasingly found in informal correspondence and student writing” and “has as yet received no sanction in print except on the op-ed and sports pages.”
1996, The American Heritage Book of English Usage states that 'alot is still considered an error in print' but notes that standard words have formed by fusion of the article with a noun, such as another and awhile, and suggests the possibility that alot may, like them, eventually enter standard usage.
2004, Jack Lynch Guide to Grammar and Style (entry dated 2004) flatly states this to be a two-word expression.
2004, The Cambridge Guide to English Usage also compares alot to awhile. It states alot to be 'still regarded as nonstandard' and notes 50 appearances in the British National Corpus, 'almost entirely from three sources: e-mail, TV autocue data, and TV newscripts.' It suggests that some usages of alot in typewritten use are to be considered merely typos of the standard a lot though its appearance in handwriting and typescript is “more significant, as the shadow of things to come.”

Because they're probably too lazy or too certain of their infallibility to bother looking it up on the Internet, which of course would reveal who's the "dummy" on this.

In my experience, people will block you for anything. Doesn't matter what you say or how you act. Someone will always find reason to block you.

Hahaha!
There was a chap on the radio recently who admitted to correcting graffiti that had grammatical mistakes like misspelling and wrong apostrophe use - he carries a small can of red paint and physically corrects it because it drives him nuts. When the radio presenter pointed out that he was just as guilty of doing graffiti as the person who did it in the first place, he agreed and said that he couldn’t help himself and it was a compulsion of his. It was pretty funny!
I wouldn’t worry about correcting people - just let them willingly stumble through life being oblivious. Much less stressful!
I think that “Alot” might be a place name, but I’m not sure. I did look it up once to waste a bit of time 😂

This site i swear
Blocking someone for using correct English lmao 🤣

Considering the nature of english it can be consider a word by now.

You've embarrassed someone who is ignorant.

They probably meant allot… but didn’t understand the spelling of the word.. so you’re both right, and contextually you’re both wrong…

Lost in translation..

Does that bother you? How about the term "imma"? Short I assume for "I am going to". I see that used often. So what do we do with those people? Torture I'm thinking..... 🤔

I remember a beautiful discussion of whether "onto" is a word... 😏
Some said it should be "on to"

I got called an idiot because I said the technically, Canadians are Americans since we live in the Americas. Although culturally we don't speak that way, it remains technically true.

She refused to believe that.

All they have to do is look it up. I know a user who would do such a thing.

People like that are just trolls.

Grammar Nazis, right or wrong, bug me. When corrected I always say "Oh thanks. Everyone loves to be corrected"

I don't know I used to use that word myself but then I looked up on the dictionary and it says nope you're supposed to say a lot. But some people can be so picky I mean whether you say a lot or alot all of us will we know what you mean you mean a lot of something

Well, they would get mad because they always thought it was a word and maybe they felt like you were putting them down by correcting them. But as for blocking you over it, that's just silly.

Alot is not a word but slang that has become completely incorporated in the language

Why write a post about something so trivial?

You’re not wrong. They’re two words. But the fact that it was a hill [b]they[/b] were willing to “die” on says much more about them than you.

🤣 point and laugh at them lol

happensalot

People nowadays are obsessed with "keeping negative energy" our of their lives, basically any little annoyance pisses them off out of proportion

A lot is a word

Must be nice to have so few real problems one attacks innocuous wording.
Someone once said ad-ver-tis-ment instead of ad-ver-tiz-ment and I had to murder them.

You should be allotted time by SW as Chief Spelling Policeman.