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From: kludge@gitpyr.UUCP (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: 'through' -> 'thru'
Message-ID: <1461@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 23-Feb-86 15:08:26 EST
Article-I.D.: gitpyr.1461
Posted: Sun Feb 23 15:08:26 1986
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In article <2827@amdahl.UUCP> gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett) writes:
>I posted here awhile ago saying that I spelled 'through' as
>'thru', I don't care to correct it, and in fact I *want* the
>standard spelling to be 'thru'.  I admitted that I had one
>exception: I still use 'through' for formal papers and (outgoing)
>business business mail.

   Theodore Roosevelt, I belive, was a great advocate of curtation,
in fact he made government spellings of 'through' as 'thru', mandatory,
as well as many other shortened forms.  The idea did not catch on, but
the story is told of him laughing out loud when a launch labelled  
'Pres Bot' floated by.

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Scott Dorsey
ICS Programming Lab, Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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