alright, allright or all right??

[edel_weiss]

люди, кто-нить знает наверняка,как правильно пишется "все в порядке", "все получается" ИМЕННО с использованием слова "олрайт"??
словари дают все три варианта, статистика гугла тоже малоубедительна

[AnnaB]

Согласно The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000 - all right (кстати, я только такой вариант и встречала).
Вот какой комментарий там дается:

Despite the appearance of the form alright in works of such well-known writers as Langston Hughes and James Joyce, the single word spelling has never been accepted as standard. This is peculiar, since similar fusions such as already and altogether have never raised any objections. The difference may lie in the fact that already and altogether became single words back in the Middle Ages, whereas alright has only been around for a little more than a century and was called out by language critics as a misspelling. Consequently, one who uses alright, especially in formal writing, runs the risk that readers may view it as an error or as the willful breaking of convention.

[nephew]

The one-word spelling alright appeared some 75 years after all right itself had reappeared from a 400-year-long absence. Since the early 20th century some critics have insisted alright is wrong, but it has its defenders and its users. It is less frequent than all right but remains in common use especially in journalistic and business publications. It is quite common in fictional dialogue, and is used occasionally in other writing < the first two years of medical school were alright — Gertrude Stein >. Merriam-Webster

[edel_weiss]

пасиба:))!
я и сама тоже кое-что в Вебстере нашла:
The one-word spelling alright appeared some 75 years after all right itself had reappeared from a 400-year-long absence. Since the early 20th century some critics have insisted alright is wrong, but it has its defenders and its users. It is less frequent than all right but remains in common use especially in journalistic and business publications. It is quite common in fictional dialogue, and is used occasionally in other writing .

[Translucid Mushroom]

allright слитно вообще никогда не встречал

[nephew]

интересный текст про alright в сегодняшней NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/02/magazine/02wwln_safire.htm
Alright
By AARON BRITT

...Erin McKean, editor of The New Oxford American Dictionary, suggests: "In rock 'n' roll the affect is to be cool. To play it cool you say that something is 'alright' instead of 'wonderful' or 'amazing."' She calls the superlative sense of alright "a contextually derived meaning where all right is imbued with the best possible meaning."

...As Sasha Frere-Jones, the pop music critic at The New Yorker, told me, "When alright comes up in rock 'n' roll, it's often in a poetic sense, where it means that something is really good, much better than the vernacular all right."

[Shumov]

на самом же деле - это две самостоятельных лексических единицы (т. е. два разных слова, говоря человеческим языком...))

[Shumov]

(чтобы не быть голословным)

All right is two words, and means that everything is correct: The spellings were all right.

Alright is used to mean 'well', 'unhurt': The student was alright after the crash.

The two are commonly confused. Some dictionaries do not recognise alright as a word.

In formal writing, use all right.

The Student's guide to Writing; Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling. MacMillan. 1999

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От себя добавлю, что alright также используется для усиления утверждения при ответе на вопрос и в качестве связки между утвержением и уточнением. Как напр.:

- Did they pay you for your translation?
- They paid me alright, but I had to wait for yonks to get the dosh.

-Тебе заплатили за перевод?
-Заплатить-то заплатили, только ждать бабок пришлось черти-сколько.