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.
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.
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?
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.
Thru is informal, today. Hiccup was informal years ago. Language progresses.