Diceman:
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
Baine
January 7, 2006, 5:00am
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I’m in favor of changing “queue” to “que” simply because it makes a great Scrabble word.
probly
sychotic
Kizarvexius:
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.
[Pirates of Penzance]
“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?
Caffeen.
The list is endless.
