On the one hand, a sign like this definitely did have enough room for the full spelling of "through". There seems to be no reason to abbreviate it.
On the other hand, isn't drive-thru just, like, its own noun now? Part of me thinks this was always spelled correctly.
It seems like shorthand for signs that has been used enough that it's basically normal now, like "lite" instead light, or "donut" instead of doughnut.
Donut is straight up just another way to spell doughnut, though. It's fully accepted, and not shorthand.
According to Merriam Webster, “thru” is an acceptable, albeit less common, variant of “through”. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thru
Dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive. They don't decide if something is "acceptable", just if it is widely used enough to report. If a mistake becomes common, it will enter the dictionary.
Maybe they meant, only drive on Thursday?
Don't get me started on "donut" instead of "doughnut".
Deez nuts are my favorite
Surely you mean doughknot?
How do you feel about hiccough?
A little bit angry.
"Donut."
Oh I will. (─ ‿ ─)
Wy do yu insist so strongly on writing thre mor letters that do nothing to chang the pronunciaton of the word? Ar yu French?
If ther's on thing I hat, it's words ending with silent e's. And whil we'r at it, we ned to get rid of doubl e's as well.
I agre. It maks no sense.
I wonder what the Venn diagram of prescriptivists and graffiti artists is
Yes.
If you want to be more accurate it is a Drive Next to, unless you drive through the building to get your food.
Oil change places where you don't get out of your car are drive through, everywhere else is a drive next to.
Car washes too!
The etymology follows the drive-in which is basically a big parking lot you drive in to, do your ordering/eating/movie watching in your car, and then you drive out. And when you don't stop in the middle of a drive in, but instead you continue through it, in your car, it became a drive through.
The pedantic term is a drive-up, btw.
For a moment, I thought, this was a misprint and they had to officially get out a spray can to complete the word...
Kinda sad where you live in a state where every little misspelling or mangled punctuation causes such stress.
that's why I got out of California
Go to Georgia. You can just make up your own pronunciation to things and people will just roll with it
there are two "l"'s in cancelled, i will die on this hill.../s
Merica gave England that other L.
language, though imprecise... brings a methemetician's paradise
Darn. They missed the hyphen.
Ah, yes, the drive thro-ugh
Ugh, not again
*facepalm
How about drive throo?
Sounds Canadian.
Also: Aluminium.
If we're going to be consistent with other elements, it should be Aluminum, that way it matches Molybdenum and Platinum, the only 2 other elements ending in "um" (please don't check this).
Drive-thru
Hi-way
Tonite
Rite
These spellings are extremely pervasive at my workplace and they drive me nuts. Granted, many people there are non-native English speakers. But that just means the people teaching them English are doing it wrong.
Do you spell "to-day" with a hyphen too? Because that's how it used to be, therefore it is correct
