I have only one word to say about this, which is my only stock and store:
Nevermore.
Whoops - I didn’t mean to come across as some kind of sex-maniac in my earlier post. :o
I disagree. Properly spoken, there is an unvoiced, but prominent and filled with exasperation, stop between the two words. Perhaps you do not have teens. However, Thudlow provided a different use in which the compound is a correct representation of what is spoken, but its meaning is also different. And is usually less snarky.
Imagine that: A Southernism, especially one I use, that is LESS snarky than its Northern equivalent. 
Well, he’s not speaking about teens, he’s speaking about Emily Litella.
That having been said, speech does not generally contain significant stops between separate words; at least, not in such a distinctive manner as would usefully aid word boundary-demarcation. There’s no particular reason to expect orthographic spacing to track pronunciation in this way.
I would and do, though I often add superfluous punctuation to “clarify” it.
Would and do what?
Some people try to separate written English from spoken English. Inspired by the Victorians, whose writings trained me, and who wrote so they could be read aloud, I recognize the difference between the quarter stop, the comma (“quarter” here in the musical sense, in which a comma equates to a quarter rest); the half stop, or semicolon; the long-forgotten third stop, or colon (it wasn’t always used just to denote a list); and the full stop, or period.
Well, alright, but do you expect, say, “all right” vs. “alright” to be indicative of a pronunciation difference? Is your screenname (or screen name) pronounced differently from “drop zone”?
I request that those people, for whom the authors of their first reading materials died before 1918, forgive me. Blame my mother, who showered me with the same books her young mother read in the 1880s.
Those compounds entered the mainstream in the 30s and 40s. I may be old and obsolete, but I still spell it “okay,” not “okeh.”
I think we may be speaking past each other a little. I’m not sure how your last post answers my question, but then, I’m no longer really sure that my question is relevant either.
Let’s leave it at how your user name says one thing about these words but I disagree. 
It’s a matter of how and when compounds are, er, compounded. “Alright,” as a single construction, was compounded long ago but “all right,” today, means something quite different. Same with “never mind,” which does not have to be spoken by a teen to convey the requisite level of snark, and “nevermind,” which, used correctly, is a slight and archaic dismissal of whatever the spoken-to said. Snarky both, but we are talking about degree here, and it can change everything.
“Alot” has always bothered the crap out of me.
I’d like to point out to everyone living in Thailand, Thais and others alike: Sometimes it’s “every day,” and sometimes it’s “everyday,” but IT’S NOT FRIGGIN’ “EVERYDAY” ALL THE FIGGIN’ TIME. As in the large signs proclaiming: “We’re open everyday.” And many more.
Phew! Thanks. Got that off my chest.
Obscure? From the Oxford English Dictionary.
I’m glad we got that cleared up.
Thank you. Thankyouverymuch.
Ooh, a prescriptivist/descriptivist debate - really glad this has come up, no one round here ever seems interested in discussing the subject :rolleyes:.
I’m not getting this, can you elaborate?
Fuck wicket.
Which calls it “regional.” Outside of that region, obscure isn’t out of the question.
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Me too, but I couldn’t resist it after that OP!