Spelling: Two Words

These three pairs of words are never spelled as one word:

a lot

I don’t know why this gets written as alot so often. No one mistakes a little, a couple, a few for one word. Just remember, Is it a little or a lot? The a is alone is both cases.

all right

The spelling alright seems acceptable in graphic novels and similar situations, but in general it is always two words. This probably doesn’t make sense since the words altogether, already, and always are single words. Just keep it two words. We want to see alllll the l’s in all right.

under way

These are two different parts of speech (preposition and adjective/noun), which is a big clue that they are two words. It’s similar to saying over there or around that. We’re starting to see underwent as a past tense verb, but otherwise leave it as two words.