You can feel how cathartic this must have been for someone

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.

Don't get me started on "donut" instead of "doughnut".

I wonder what the Venn diagram of prescriptivists and graffiti artists is

Wy do yu insist so strongly on writing thre mor letters that do nothing to chang the pronunciaton of the word? Ar yu French?

Americans don't like "ou" in their words.

So it is thereby, by law, and without question, "Drive throgh".

For a moment, I thought, this was a misprint and they had to officially get out a spray can to complete the word...

there are two "l"'s in cancelled, i will die on this hill.../s

Loved the show Dress to Kill by Eddie Izzard. He thought thru was much better than through coming to the conclusion that through should be pronounced like thruff.

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.

How about drive throo?

Darn. They missed the hyphen.

Thru /throo͞/

preposition, adverb & adjective

1. Through.

preposition

1. Alternative spelling of through.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition • More at Wordnik

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.

Kinda sad where you live in a state where every little misspelling or mangled punctuation causes such stress.

Weird Al

Also: Aluminium.

Lynne Truss approves.