Connotative differences in spelling

[Lynne Murphy]

>"Thru" and -- I think -- a few other 'reformed' spellings remain in
>'serious' use on US road signs. Is the UK different in this regard?
>
>-- Doug Wilson

There's a lot less writing on UK road signs in general (they're more
the international symbol type), and I don't recall seeing 'thru', but
I don't have a car, so I wouldn't know.  The one thing that I've
noticed is that motorcycle parking is marked "SOLO M/C"--I find the
SOLO instead of ONLY interesting.  Doesn't seem recent enough to be
an EU innovation.

I have seen in a newspaper (probably _The Guardian_) the NY state
thruway (I think this was in an article about the NY senate race)
spelt "throughway", which I wanted to write to the editor about, but
didn't.

Lynne
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