From: ankhorite	Date: February 28th, 2007 03:19 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: Just Get Us Thru Tonite

Oh, I'm sure you're right. But growing up in Chicago, reading the paper before the streamlined spellings were abandoned, I still catch myself preferring "altho" to "although" and "thru" to "through." The abbreviated forms I grew up with naturally look more natural to me than some of the more recent proposals! :)