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Originally Posted by HarryT
Many of the simplified spellings in the US came about through (thru?  ) the efforts of the newspaper, the "Chicago Tribune", whose owner, Joseph Medill, was a prominent believer in "spelling reform" in the 1880s. I believe that "thru", "nite", "lite", and many others stem from this period. The "Tribune" only went back to using "traditional" spellings in 1975. |
Which doesn't make them slang, and doesn't mean the people who created or used them were either illiterate or lazy, does it?
That is what bhartman36 would have us believe. Although, I think his argument is full of holes. And, that includes his definition of "illiterate" ... which is a situational construct.