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How should you spell it?

Doughnut
Donut
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Lizard Dude

« Reply #15 on: December 18, 2006, 03:49:28 PM »
donut > doughnut  vs.  dialogue > dialog

^ I find that interesting, Sapph. What do you think about analog vs. analogue?

Also, I don't think it's an English rule to follow gender-correct adjectives.

The Chef

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« Reply #16 on: December 18, 2006, 03:51:55 PM »
Dhoe-nhutt

Sorry, I tried to invent a new way to spell it.

Sapphira

  • Inquiring
« Reply #17 on: December 18, 2006, 03:59:08 PM »
Analog > Analogue.
Monologue > Monolog
Now that IS interesting. It probably has to do with what I've been used to seeing. Hmm... Analog(ue) is used more in technical context, whereas monolog(ue) and dialog(ue) are used more in artistic/theatrical context. I think that's why I like analog being simple, but the other words being pretty and fancy and "eloquent"; I like associating context with spelling to give it a mood or something.

As for "gender-correctness," I don't know, but it should be, since we already have both variations. I think it's kind of cool, assigning each variation to designate gender, rather than the variations being random.

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« Last Edit: December 18, 2006, 04:00:57 PM by Sapphira »
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Pt_Peach

« Reply #18 on: December 18, 2006, 04:23:19 PM »
A donut is a doughnut and a doughnut is a donut. Same thing. I prefer to spell it donut, though. Heck, I spell it both ways. Wow, two red lines in Firefox.
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Luigison

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« Reply #19 on: December 18, 2006, 05:03:01 PM »
I often use British spellings.  I think that may be because so many of the books I read in high school and college had British authors.  I'm not sure why, but I have a habit of ending words that end in "th" with an "e".  Maybe it's a British thing, but more likely because of the commonly typed "the".  I also often use nonexistent spellings, but Firefox is helping with that.  Many of my typos are because of the way I talk. 
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Mr. Wiggles

« Reply #20 on: December 18, 2006, 05:48:49 PM »
Donut. Everyone already knows its made of dough anyway so why spell it out for them?
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Eclipsed Moon

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« Reply #21 on: December 18, 2006, 05:57:21 PM »
In reality, it's "doughnut".  It all started when I opened my bakery, and, with my great dissatisfaction of the way they tasted, I made my own, superior kind.  I put up signs that say "We take the 'ugh' out of 'doughnut'", and that's how they appeared on the menu, "donut", with its convenient same pronunciation.

CrzyFlmngMnkyHead

« Reply #22 on: December 18, 2006, 06:29:15 PM »
Donut. For some reason, "doughnut" makes me think of fat, tons-of-cream-inside pasteries insted of normal donuts.
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Mr. Melee

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« Reply #23 on: December 18, 2006, 07:10:52 PM »
Well, though I do agree both can be used correctly, I prefer (anything chocolate) doughnut. It seems more original and "right." Anyway(s), they're made out of dough, so why should the "ugh" be taken out? I mean, people still feeel "ugh" after eating a few, being they know that they've ingested something unhealthy, right?

Some defiitions from Google include "In geometry, a torus (pl. tori) is a doughnut-shaped surface of revolution generated by revolving a circle about an axis coplanar with the circle." and "a ring-shaped surface generated by rotating a circle around an axis that does not intersect the circle."
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SushieBoy

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« Reply #24 on: December 18, 2006, 07:33:28 PM »
Ughhhh, we always have to get Google involved, don't we?
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Sapphira

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« Reply #25 on: December 18, 2006, 08:01:27 PM »
SushieBoy is anti-learning and pro-whining.
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MaxVance

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« Reply #26 on: December 18, 2006, 08:03:15 PM »
Fried dough cake.
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BP

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« Reply #27 on: December 18, 2006, 10:20:12 PM »
Donut. Doughnut is too formal. And Firefox says it's wrong.
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Vidgmchtr

« Reply #28 on: December 18, 2006, 11:55:49 PM »
I don't care. I won't go crazy over either spelling, though I can say I first knew of the "Donut" spelling because I saw it on the "Dunkin Donuts" logo as a young child. Then I saw the "Doughnut" spelling and then thought, "hm, maybe the Dunkin Donuts people shortened the word so the words would have the same amount of characters in the logo".

Then I saw the apostrophe in the logo (which I intentionally left out in my post for this reason), and then I threw my hands in the air and checked a dictionary, which showed both spellings. So, I don't care. If the dictionary says both are acceptable, that's okay with me.
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CrossEyed7

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« Reply #29 on: November 26, 2011, 03:26:58 PM »
Quote from: BP on December 18, 2006, 10:20:12 PM
Donut. Doughnut is too formal. And Firefox says it's wrong.

Chrome says Doughnut is right and Donut is wrong. Interesting.

Apparently I originally voted Doughnut on this, but I'm not so sure anymore. Donut looks wrong, but of course, any word stops looking like a word when you spend so long analyzing it. I guess it just looks too similar to Don't?

The thing about Doughnut is that having Dough be recognizable in there starts raising the question of where the Nut comes in. Reminds me of the Action Button reviews about how the more Metroid Prime 3 and Bioshock try to make sense, the more obvious it becomes that they don't make sense.

Turns out it's actually an interesting turn of synecdoche. The original doughnuts were actually nut-shaped balls of dough. Later on, the ring doughnut and filled doughnut became more popular, and somehow or another the ring doughnut ended up being the one popular enough to drop the adjective, and then 200 years later, the original doughnuts are called doughnut holes. Knowing the history makes things make more sense, as I'd always wondered why jelly doughnuts counted as doughnuts when they weren't toroidal.

So doughnuts have been around for about 200 years, and the "donut" spelling has been around for at least 111 years. Not nearly as much of a neologism as I'd expected.

By the way, Chrome's spell-checker doesn't recognize "synecdoche" so it is officially dead to me.

Anyway, now I'm starting to prefer Donut because of how many times I've typed Doughtnut and had to go back and fix it. Typing Donut flows so much more smoothly.
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