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Only obliquely to do with this allot, alot thing, I've noticed in a lot of American books that the phrase " a while " has become "awhile". I've seen various other welding together of words to form a single word. The true meaning of cliche.
No wonder that our language is so ridden with cliches.
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December 8, 2005
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