A single-word change that you can observe in the wild is through → thru. It appears that way on road signs and I’ve started to see it creep into informal and even semi-formal writing, e.g. internal-only business email. Unfortunately, the related change throughout → thruout just looks bizarre, though I guess the original is kinda a bizarre word too.
A single-word change that you can observe in the wild is through → thru. It appears that way on road signs and I’ve started to see it creep into informal and even semi-formal writing, e.g. internal-only business email. Unfortunately, the related change throughout → thruout just looks bizarre, though I guess the original is kinda a bizarre word too.