• spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • rockerface 🇺🇦
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      2 months ago

      Do you spell “to-day” with a hyphen too? Because that’s how it used to be, therefore it is correct