All right or Alright? That is the question!

The following took place between 2:30 P.M. and 3:00 P.M.

bwil: thats quite alright
bwil: i mean all right
amy: i'm going to look into that right now
bwil: ha
amy: http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/a.htm
amy: scroll down to alright
bwil: Exclam. Hello. A greeting. No answer is expected to what is inherently a question. Northern dialect has created the phonetic corruption awreet.
bwil: ha
bwil: not what i thought it meant but alright!
amy: you can thank noah webster for changing meanings and spellings of words
amy: or curse the british for not adapting to our language
amy: either one is perfectly acceptable
bwil: how about a twinge of both
amy: absolutely
bwil: sometimes you can have your cake and eat it too
amy: sometimes you can and it doesnt happen that way too often
bwil: no ma'am it sure doesn't
amy: "All Right?" (Greeting): 'What's up?','How's it Going?'
amy: from another brit-amer thing. ah well
bwil: thats only one meaning tho
bwil: they're missing so much of it
amy: or you're misspelling it
bwil: all right is a very versitile statement
bwil: alrite?
amy: ha ha
amy: okay, so i'm done trying to prove that is the alright is the british spelling of the word
bwil: what is the verdict?
amy: you can decide
bwil: The correct form of this phrase has become so rare in the popular press that many readers have probably never noticed that it is actually two words. But if you want to avoid irritating traditionalists you'd better tell them that you feel 'all right' rather than 'alright.'
amy: avoid irritating traditionalists eh
bwil: thats what it says
bwil: Adj. 1. alright - nonstandard usage satisfactory - giving satisfaction; "satisfactory living conditions"; "his grades were satisfactory" Adv. 1. alright - used to reinforces an assertion; "it's expensive all right" without doubt, all right 2. alright - sentence-initial expression of agreement all right, fine, OK, very well 3. alright - in a satisfactory or adequate manner; "she'll do okay on her own"; "held up all right under pressure"; (`alright' is a nonstandard variant of `all right') O.K., okay, all right colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
amy: nonstandard variant
bwil: but it IS in there
amy: what dictionary did you get that from
bwil: 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.
amy: HA! that is history telling you that you're wrong
bwil: or that i'm willfully breaking convention
bwil: take that, convention!
amy: alright is listed in my print dictionary. def: disputed sp of all right
bwil: alright deserves the respect already and altogether
amy: no it doesnt
bwil: i'm fighting the good fight on this one
amy: so you're going to dispute the convention of a substandard spelling just because you can
bwil: oh no no
bwil: i dont do ANYTHING just because i can
bwil: i believe in alright
bwil: i think it can go places
amy: right to the vocabulary landfill with all the other bad spellings of words. it can keep company with alot.