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[Keith Wicks]

I agree with the different meanings you give for "all right" and "alright",
but sometimes these expressions are used to mean the same thing, and some
bodies feel that "all right" is the only correct form. For example,
Dictionary.com states that "it is not all right to use alright in standard
English". As I said, that is a matter of opinion. But my concern was about
altering the title of the film.
KW


On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 at 23:28, Mike Giles <mibridge at mac.com> wrote:

> Apparently the first known use of “alright" dates from 1865 and in my book
> has a different meaning from “all right”. Compare “Your answers were all
> right” with “ Your answers were alright” ~ the first is unambiguous that
> there were no mistakes, whereas the second, depending on intonation, could
> well suggest that you’ve done reasonably well, but certainly not perfectly.
>
> Mike G
>
>
> On 21 Sep 2020, at 19:32, Keith Wicks via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> Did an over-eager English teacher have a go at editing the programme
> details? I ask because although a comma is grammatically correct in "I'm
> alright, Jack" it is more usual to use the original form in such a case,
> and this has no comma. Also "Alright" should have been changed to All Right
> for the same reason (although it is a matter of opinion whether or not
> "Alright" is a normally acceptable alternative to All Right).
> KW
>
>
> On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 at 08:55, Mike Jordan via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> Re: film clubs and reel change
>>
>> I was part of the team that ran the Film Projection Unit at school (back
>> in the early 60s)
>> One job was showing the Sunday evening films to the boarders in the
>> school main hall.
>> There was a removable window in the side of the Geography Room (hence GR
>> on the chair) and various types of speakers on the stage (until some idiot
>> thought a clutch of warship type round cans spread along the walls would be
>> better and which of course gave great echo but no directivity)
>> Our old 16mm Bell and Howell projector did great service though once I
>> had to carry by rail and tube it all the way from Brentwood to be serviced
>> in a place by Shepherds Bush Market.
>> The fairly regular broken film gave splicing experience and a quick sniff
>> of the film cement!
>> I seem to remember the films arrived by post from somewhere in London and
>> were collected from the Post Office in town.
>> I haven’t got a picture but we also had an old (wooden?) Epidiascope for
>> showing 3 1/4” slides and served as an early overhead projector for
>> paperwork.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> <Filmclub_reelchange[2].jpg>
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