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I remember my grade 5 teacher saying "All right is all wrong unless there are two words". (1965) I assume alright is a relatively recent addition to the language and it does bug me alot(sic) too.
One thing that bugs me is
1) I learned to spell e.g. as eg. in high school (70's - do the math from my grade 5 year). Still looks wrong to me to see "e.g."
2) mixing up i.e. and e.g. They're note equivalent. The former is explaining (id est = that is); the latter is giving an example (um - short for egsample?? what is the etymology). Looked it up: exempli gratia.
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