All the coffee shops here like Tim Hortons call it the mighty dOnut,
so right or wrong that's what I order

Language is mangled regularly by the big companies to come up with new terms for their fluff, and new words and spellings are added and removed all the time from dictionaries. Part of being a still living language.

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Keep on Truckin, Going full speed ahead down the highway to hades.

According to my "Big Book of Useless Trivia", the word started out as DOUGHNUT and was later changed by Marketering guys to DONUT because the shorter word was thought to be more appealing to consumers.

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"Life is like eating jalapenos. What you do today may burn your arse tomorrow"

I actually do think it's spelled "Donut".

Doughnut would only be derived from breaking the word into syllables and spelling out each individual syllable.

And the last letter of the alphabet is pronounced "zed"
It's Colour, not color.
And it's cheque, not check

But hey--that's the beauty of the English language.

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It wasn't Willy-Nilly, it was at crows.

Ceri has the right idea, there...

It should be D'oh Nut, in honor of Homer... Mmmm...

Besides... The Pillsbury Doughboy has... well, you get the idea...

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"...The final truth is, there is no truth..." - (from "Nice n' Neat" by the Boomtown Rats)

Who cares how to spell it…Dip it in chocolate and pass it my way; then call it whatever you want…..MMMMMMMMMMMMMM Good..

Bill

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(80’s Hair Metal) = A snapshot in time before Grunge ruined Rock & Roll forever!!!!

One of the many things wrong with "proper" English is found in words that end in "ough". I remember a hilarious scene from I Love Lucy where Lucy is helping Ricky read a bedtime story to their son. He didn't understand why these words weren't pronounced the same way . . .

Bough
Cough
Dough
Rough
Through

Five different vowels sounds . . . I don't understand it, either.

And indeed Bill Bryson gives eight different ways to pronounce -ough:

through
though
thought
tough
plough
thorough
hiccough
lough (Irish word for lake, pronounced like Scottish loch)

He also gives this amusing list:

heard - beard
road - broad
five - give
early - dearly
beau - beauty
steak - streak
ache - moustache
low - how
doll - droll
scour - four
grieve - sieve
paid - said
break - speak

We'd better decide to love this stuff as part of the intractable beauty of our language; because the alternative is to reinvent it as a phonetic language - and how banal would that be?

Bill Bryson (in the book Mother Tongue) also mentions this delightful little anomaly: the word for the study of pronunciation in English is orthoepy - which itself can be pronounced two different ways. Nice!

Cheers - C

Thats a good one Ceri you deserve a Doenut after that one. OH no what could I have started DOE NUT !!!!

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The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

Thomas Jefferson

its a nut of dough, hence the name doughnut

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Rated "M" for meaty.

OK, but I'm glad I was an English-speaking high school student learning Spanish and not the other way around.

BTW - The Duncan Donuts store on my way to work was torn down last week.

Before he was Dr. Seuss, Ted Geisel wrote a short story called "The Tough Coughs as He Ploughs the Dough."



P.S. The Mother Tongue is one of my favorite books, too!

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I really like all them "Aster" guitars. You know, like the Stratoc, Telec and Jazzm.

If we translate that into blues-speak, we would say that the Dunkin Donuts is tore down, almost level with the ground.

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I really like all them "Aster" guitars. You know, like the Stratoc, Telec and Jazzm.

Bill Bryson is kind of a national treasure in my part of the world. He's permitted to laugh at us in ways nobody else can get away with.

Cheers - C

Oh, forget about it!

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.