Apparently this reminder is needed.

It is a meme.

        • Dexx1s@lemmy.world
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          No, we all say hiccup. FFS, googling “hiccough” essentially autocorrects to hiccup. If everyone spells it hiccup and also pronounces it hiccup, literally no one is using “hiccough”.

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            Sure sure. And you can spell through as thru as well. That doesn’t change the original spelling, or the fact that they’re pronounced the same.

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              And you can spell through as thru as well.

              No you can’t. Not in the same way. “Thru” is an informal word, similar to writing “gud 2 c u”.

              How about you at least try something that’s not blatantly inequivalent. If I Google “thru”, what can I expect to find? If I run both through a dictionary, what can I expect to find? If I poll the general public on each, which one would be accepted as a proper spelling? What would I have to do to both “thru” and “hiccup” be treated as equals here?

              That doesn’t change the original spelling, or the fact that they’re pronounced the same

              I said nothing about an original spelling. But if you’re calling it the original spelling, you’re kinda just conceding that “Hiccough” is the original and “hiccup” is the current.

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          no one uses hiccough. it’s outdated and dead. Just as in the future no one will use “surewhynotlem” and will instead use the proper and more agreed upon spelling “donebrach”

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      I’d argue that even cough and rough are different. There’s probably more.