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.
Right, the distinction I’m making is this isn’t just “normalized” but actually the correct spelling. As in, if a newspaper editor saw it written as “drive-through” they would be obliged to correct it.
Suppose both aight?
A drive-through or drive-thru (a sensational spelling of the word through), is a type of take-out service provided by a business that allows customers to purchase products without leaving their cars.
Sensational spelling is the deliberate spelling of a word in a non-standard way for special effect.
I still call it an air-port.
All my homies call them aerodromes.
My kid calls it a plane station and frankly it’s growing on me
I’m down for that
I’m gonna take a ride in a aero
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Ohh I thought donut was the American spelling of doughnut.
We spell it both ways.
Yup, doughnut if you’re being fancy, donut if it’s some trash from the grocery store.
Not necessarily. Some hole in the wall serving the best damn breakfast pastries our country has to offer is gonna call it a donut. A donut is a working class doughnut.
Yup, fancy is usually less tasty IMO. I prefer the ghetto donuts at our grocery store to the fancy doughnuts at the fancy bakery.
It is.
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Donut is straight up just another way to spell doughnut, though. It’s fully accepted, and not shorthand.
Maybe they meant, only drive on Thursday?
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 don’t mind silent e’s, they do actually change the way words are pronounced at least.
Magic Es they taught them to me as. Come to think of it as an adult a magic e could mean something entirely different…
If they are silent, they don’t chang the pronunciaton, becaus if they do they are not silent.
In that persons comment, they removed several “silent” e’s, but all but one changed the word’s pronunciation. I was talking about them. Like the E in hate. It doesn’t make a sound itself, so isn’t it still silent?
It’s not silent, but in the wrong place. Haet would be more correct, as it changes the pronunciation from [hæt] to [heɪt]. Hait might be an even better way to write it (see also: bait, maid, laid etc.)
English is a weird language.
Dubl e’s mak sens thou. Ther’s a diffrenc between feed and fed, or between need and Ned. The dublin maks the E longer.
I agre. It maks no sense.
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.
You drive through the line not the building
You mean you drive along the line not through it.
I would go with “Drive Around”, over drive next to, but I pedantically agree.
Americans don’t like “ou” in their words.
So it is thereby, by law, and without question, “Drive throgh”.
Drive thru. This is actually a common spelling in the US.
Yeah but they don’t spell “colour” as “colur”.
Darn. They missed the hyphen.
Ah, yes, the drive thro-ugh
Ugh, not again
*facepalm
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.
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
Lynne Truss approves.
