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The Boys Are Not Alright

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Axtremus

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Someone good with English grammar please enlighten me. Is it more grammatical to say "the boys are not alright" or "the boys are not all right"?
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‘All right’ is what you’d find in a style guide. But ‘alright’ has been used in error long enough to have made the dictionary too.
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~~First~~ Fantasy world problems.
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