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Topic: What's in your newspaper today?
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No such word 
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True, Onceupon, but "alot" seems to be one of the more common errors in English, at least American English these days. I've seen it here often.
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Onceupon: I had to look back and find out if I was the miscreant. And, lo and behold, it was I! The word now in dictionaries that really gripes me ALOT is "snuck".
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So they finally snuck that one into the dictionaries, eh? 
They've changed a lot of rules on us, Audrey. "He runs fast" is now considered okay, for example. When I was in elementary school, that would have been marked as wrong, because "fast" was an adjective, not an adverb. I guess that, rather than teach kids to speak correctly, it's easier to just pretend they're right, so the powers that be have made it "legal". It doesn't help me any, though; I can't run fast anymore. 
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Onceupon, check this out from a Brit on the other chess site where I play quite a bit (I haven't edited it at all):
"I love playing online poker the meaning of life i think there for i am"
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