On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 12:03:51 -0400
"William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@o-sinc.com> wrote:

>  That is ALLOT of work to fiddle

Unrelated to thread and is not intended as a "I'm better because I grammar well" thing,
but this drives me nuts and I've bitten my tongue on it for months.

But you use that word that isn't a word in the context you mean, frequently.

You want *two* words, "a lot", which mean "a large volume of"

"allot" is a *verb*, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/allot#Verb

Which means "to proportion out"

By analogy, this makes as much sense as if you'd written:

  "That is a distributing of work to fiddle"

Or

  "That is an apportion of work to fiddle"

Which is nonsense.

I myself used to make this mistake, and now I just avoid the word
in entirety as a defensive strategy.

"I use that word a lot" -> "I use that word frequently"

"It is a lot of work"  -> "It is substantial work"

"I have a lot of time" -> "I have significant time"

"I will allot you 5 units of rice" -> "I will apportion you 5 units of rice"

( I try not to play grammar nazi, but when you make only one mistake that I notice,
  I ignore it, but when you make the same single mistake over and over and over again,
  on a daily basis, I feel somebody should point it out.

  Please accept my apologies for having some flavour of mental disorder for being
  triggered by this )