# Words that need a spelling change

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-need-a-spelling-change/338432>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 4, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-need-a-spelling-change/338432 "2006-01-04T18:39:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-need-a-spelling-change/338432/61 "2006-01-07T04:55:50Z")

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> [@Diceman](#):
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> **Through.** Talk about a word that’s longer than it needs to be. Fast food joints all over the country have a “drive-thru,” and I really wish that this spelling would catch on in everyday use. For a while I used the spelling “thru” in my posts in the SDMB, but it didn’t catch.

I have use Thru as often as Through. When someone challenges me on it, I explain that is the spelling in the phonetic dictionary and as long as it conveys the meaning, it does no harm. Then they usually pummel me. 😉

Jim

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**Author:** ![Baine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Baine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baine)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-need-a-spelling-change/338432/62 "2006-01-07T05:00:58Z")

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I’m in favor of changing “queue” to “que” simply because it makes a great Scrabble word.

probly

sychotic

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**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-need-a-spelling-change/338432/63 "2006-01-07T05:06:33Z")

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> [@Kizarvexius](#):
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> You beat me to it. I had a Kindergarten teacher who always pronounced “February” in a way that emphasized the r. I’ve been saying it that way ever since, and any time someone questions my pronunciation, I ask them to spell the word. Out the dozen or so times that this has happened, only one person actually spelled it correctly.
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> [Pirates of Penzance]  
> When you said “offen”, did you mean “orphan” � a person who has lost his parents, or “often”, frequently?  
> [/POP]

“Often,” a word that 20 years ago was supposed to be pronounced “offen” but recently has been accepted as “often.”

I say, why not just make it official? Why have the “t” in there at all?

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**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-need-a-spelling-change/338432/64 "2006-01-07T05:07:47Z")

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Caffeen.  
Definatly.  
Fone.  
Agknowledge.  
Diareaha.

The list is endless. 😛

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