There’s allot in English, too. Which means something like to assign a quantity or share to someone or something.

Alot is not a word.

Also, the vanishing use of countable quantities: they are all amounts nowadays.

If it were music it would be forta, as in the Italian pronunciation of pianoforte. Which would be correct, according to M-W.

I will start using this pronunciation immediately. I always assumed it is derived from the French forté.

So thanks for pointing this out!

In other news, the possessive apostrophe is now allowed as part of a name (Rita’s Restaurant) in German…

I’m writing with regards to the issue of…

That’s very friendly and I’ll be sure to forward your regards…🙄

If there are fourteen of them, do they deserve to be called “standards” at all?

(sorry, not the first)