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Hitchhiker is spelled with two hs in the middle?
As for threshold, it's an ancient word...
https://www.etymonline.com/word/threshold?utm_source=app
Good point, my mistake on hitchhiker. My brain just merged it in with my hatred of threshold.
It doesn't matter how old threshold is. They merged the h of hold with the h in the sh sound of thresh. There is an H missing from how it should be spelt.
Linguists aren't sure the second part is "hold".
Liberman (Oxford University Press blog, Feb. 11, 2015) revives an old theory that the second element is the Proto-Germanic instrumental suffix -thlo and the original sense of threshold was a threshing area adjacent to the living area of a house.
Ancient words are weird; meanings/ spellings change and are lost to time. It's what makes it all so interesting. You're not wrong, but this might be a bad example.
I'd accept this as a bad example if it wasn't pronounced "hold". Like, you say "thresh hold" and not "thresh old", and that's why I get ticked off at it only having one H. Even if there's an explanation, it's irritating.