Apparently this reminder is needed.

It is a meme.

  • Dexx1s@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    And you can spell through as thru as well.

    No you can’t. Not in the same way. “Thru” is an informal word, similar to writing “gud 2 c u”.

    How about you at least try something that’s not blatantly inequivalent. If I Google “thru”, what can I expect to find? If I run both through a dictionary, what can I expect to find? If I poll the general public on each, which one would be accepted as a proper spelling? What would I have to do to both “thru” and “hiccup” be treated as equals here?

    That doesn’t change the original spelling, or the fact that they’re pronounced the same

    I said nothing about an original spelling. But if you’re calling it the original spelling, you’re kinda just conceding that “Hiccough” is the original and “hiccup” is the current.