In a valiant but pointless attempt to build up my post count, I must protest baobab's characterization of "thru" as U.S. English. "Color," "honor," and such are OK, but "thru" is ad lingo like "nite," "lite" and similar junk - for folks too lazy to learn to spell, in too big a hurry to take the time to read, or who think it looks cool ("kewl?")