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.
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Do you spell "to-day" with a hyphen too? Because that's how it used to be, therefore it is correct
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I should thank her for writing such a boring, tedious book filled with "old man yells at cloud" energy that it started me on the path away from prescriptivism.
Jeez. I thought it was amusing.
Maybe I just had different expectations. I really thought it would have interesting things to say about grammar, but it was just her complaining about the same surface-level type of thing over and over. I guess I just wasn't expecting something meant to be popular instead of substantive after the hype I'd heard around it-- guess I didn't look enough into what it was beforehand.
That would be different for sure. I just went into it hoping for something light and amusing about punctuation, so I wasn't disappointed.
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.
The etymology follows the drive-in which is basically a big parking lot you drive in to, do your ordering/eating/movie watching in your car, and then you drive out. And when you don't stop in the middle of a drive in, but instead you continue through it, in your car, it became a drive through.
The pedantic term is a drive-up, btw.
I would go with "Drive Around", over drive next to, but I pedantically agree.
Car washes too!
You drive through the line not the building
You mean you drive along the line not through it.
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