Is it 'Doughnut' or 'Donut'?

[Kosha]

Ah the age old question: Which is the correct spelling of that ring of dough covered in sugar? Doughnut or Donut?

I say Doughnut. As we all know, Doughnuts are made from Dough not from Do.

[Sarcastic Coffeecup]

Original doughnut donut steel

[Chrysocyon]

Doughnut.

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[DrDingo]

Dough-ring and Dough-disc weren't catchy enough

So the maker probably thought 'Yes! A nut for a screw is ring-shaped! Doughnut!'

and lo, the legacy of the doughnut began

[DevilishlyHandsome49]

Mainstream! All about donut! >:p

[Jerry]

Doughnut

Centre

Colour

The letter zed (and not zee)

Licence

All words that you Americans ruined :V

[Chrysocyon]

Is it 'Yogurt', 'Yoghurt' or 'Yoghourt'? (Djoghurt?)

[willow]

Just now, Chrysocyon said:

Is it 'Yogurt', 'Yoghurt' or 'Yoghourt'? (Djoghurt?)

 

 

[DrGravitas]

I have a terrible tendency to spell it both ways at random.

[Pignog]

both, close thread.

i know these things i eat inferior versions of them every day

[willow]

On a serious note though. The food is both but donut is also a type of bolt or a spare tire. 

[Endless/Nameless]

Thank you making me lose confidence in my reality 

[Vallium]

Donut is just the bastardized/simplification/conceptualizatio way to spell doughnut, the correct way.

 

But apparently donut was just so common it became its own variant correct thing

[DrDingo]

Here's a fun word for you people

Prescriptivism

It's a word which means holding the belief that there is one correct way to speak and write language.

This thread is, by definition, full of people who are prescriptivists

This has been an English lesson with DrDingo

[Cingal]

Doughnut.

 

It's made of Dough, not do.

[#00Buck]

Americans like to spell things in dumb ways. 

Doughnut = Donut 

Right = Rite

Night = Nite

Light beer = Lite beer

Learn to spell! 

[Wrecker]

6 hours ago, Pignog said:

both, close thread.

i know these things i eat inferior versions of them every day

goona need some elaboration here

[Pignog]

4 minutes ago, Wrecker said:

goona need some elaboration here

im a qt doughnut/donut grrl irl

[LazerMaster5]

Only filthy commies spell it as doughnut.

True Americans spell it as donut.

Join me in the dining room for sweet tea and cheeseburgers, but remember to say grace first. I will not tolerate ungrateful bastards at the dinner table.

[FenrirDarkWolf]

When you live in the US and you spell like a Brit .w.

Not that any of my profs care anyway.

[Misomie]

I personally like donut more because my boyfriend likes to call doughnuts dognuts because of the spelling simularity. Both versions though are correct. If I recall donut stemmed from Dunkin' Donuts and got popular from there.

[PastryOfApathy]

Seeing as it's spelled "Dunkin' Donuts", spelling it 'donut' is officially canon.

[FlynnCoyote]

 

I... I don't know what to believe.

[Pignog]

doughnaughts

[Sidewalk Surfboard]

I don't care how you spell it, I want my fucking donut

[DevilBear]

4 hours ago, Pignog said:

doughnaughts

Dreadnoughts. Powdered dipped or glazed.

[Pignog]

you're goeben too far devilbear

[Luka]

Donut concern yourself with this

[Grubbit]

I always thought that "Donut" was like a branding thing. Like it's used to subconsciously make you think of Dunkin' Donuts..

Donut is inseparable from Dunkin', yin and yang.

Like how people sometimes say "Pass me a coke!" but they really just mean whatever soda you have. It doesn't necessarily mean specifically coca-cola, but it kind of passively invokes the brand every time you say it.

It's late for me.

[Wrecker]

"Dough nut"

The earliest known recorded usage of the term dates to an 1808 short story[13] describing a spread of "fire-cakes and dough-nuts." Washington Irving's reference to "doughnuts" in 1809 in his History of New York is more commonly cited as the first written recording of the term. Irving described "balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks."[14] These "nuts" of fried dough might now be called doughnut holes. Doughnut is the more traditional spelling, and still dominates outside the US.[15][16] At present, doughnut and the shortened form donut are both pervasive in American English.[17]

"Donut"

The first known printed use of donut was in Peck's Bad Boy and his Pa by George W. Peck, published in 1900, in which a character is quoted as saying, "Pa said he guessed he hadn't got much appetite, and he would just drink a cup of coffee and eat a donut."[18] According to John T. Edge (Donuts, an American passion 2006) the alternative spelling “donut” was invented when the New York–based Display Doughnut Machine Corporation abbreviated the word to make it more pronounceable by the foreigners they hoped would buy their automated doughnut making equipment.[19][20] The donut spelling also showed up in a Los Angeles Times article dated August 10, 1929 in which Bailey Millard jokingly complains about the decline of spelling, and that he "can't swallow the 'wel-dun donut' nor the ever so 'gud bred'." The interchangeability of the two spellings can be found in a series of "National Donut Week" articles in The New York Times that covered the 1939 World's Fair. In four articles beginning October 9, two mention the donut spelling. Dunkin' Donuts, which was so-named in 1950, following its 1948 founding under the name Open Kettle (Quincy, Massachusetts), is the oldest surviving company to use the donut variation; other chains, such as the defunct Mayflower Doughnut Corporation (1931), did not use that spelling.[21] According to the Oxford Dictionary while "doughnut" is used internationally, the spelling "donut" is American.[22] The spelling "donut" remained rare until the 1950s, and has since grown significantly in popularity;[23] this growth in use has possibly been influenced by the spread of Dunkin' Donuts.[24]

- Wikimotherfuckingpedia

Wait a minute, edit, who is so involved with dowtfnuts that they take the time to research that stuff?

Somewhere out there, there are literal dosomethingsomethingnut gurus among us.

Edited March 31, 2016 by Wrecker

[DevilBear]

As one of this forums resident gun toting, bald eagle saluting, flag waiving red-blooded Americans, I can safely say the only correct spelling is whatever you want it to be because America is all about choices and freedom.

But don't you dare spell color or neighbor with a "u." That's how communists spell it.

[ArielMT]

On 3/21/2016 at 2:53 PM, Pignog said:

doughnaughts

Pretty much both doughnut and donut are transmuted homophones of this.  The middles of deep-fried pastry discs tend to be undercooked, so they're instead deep-fried as toruses so they have naught of the undercooked doughiness.

Also, I spell it "donut," but Firefox's US English dictionary insists on "doughnut."

[Toshabi]

I prefer Doughnut.As a kid (and still going), I'd get a sharpie and cross out some letters and add one to make it say "Dog nuts" on the packaging. 

[FenrirDarkWolf]

19 minutes ago, DevilBear said:

As one of this forums resident gun toting, bald eagle saluting, flag waiving red-blooded Americans, I can safely say the only correct spelling is whatever you want it to be because America is all about choices and freedom.

But don't you dare spell color or neighbor with a "u." That's how communists spell it.

I'm going to colour my neighbour grey for his bad behaviour :VVVV

[DevilBear]

4 minutes ago, FenrirDarkWolf said:

I'm going to colour my neighbour grey for his bad behaviour :VVVV

Boy, you are just begging for some LIBERATION.

[FenrirDarkWolf]

22 minutes ago, DevilBear said:

Boy, you are just begging for some LIBERATION.

;3

Much love, from a Texan boi~

[Toshabi]

1 hour ago, 6tails said:

Furry even as a whelp. How cute. :3

Those boxes were ouiji boards that put a furfag hex on me.

[DJT]

What does Homer Simpson have a say about it.

[Saxon]

Doughnuts actually date back to the viking age and take their name from their inventor, King Knut. 

'Daugh-Knut'. 

 

[Xaende]

Shorter spellings lower the character count, which saves money on advertising. Considering that both spellings are generally considered acceptable, I'll go with the more efficient "donut".

*noms tasty donut*

Edited March 31, 2016 by Xaende

[Saxon]

1 minute ago, Xaende said:

Shorter spellings lower the character count, which saves money on advertising. Considering that both spellings are generally considered acceptable, I'll go with the more efficient "donut".

*noms tasty donut*

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[Xaende]

Just now, Saxon said:

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Well, one can only take this so far before it becomes ridiculous. Usage of both doughnut and donut are fairly common, however.

[Saxon]

4 minutes ago, Xaende said:

Well, one can only take this so far before it becomes ridiculous. Usage of both doughnut and donut are fairly common, however.

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[Xaende]

1 minute ago, Saxon said:

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[FlynnCoyote]

There are a dozen better things to buy at any doughnut chain before the donuts themselves. Who really cares how you spell dohnut?

[Saxon]

17 minutes ago, FlynnCoyote said:

There are a dozen better things to buy at any doughnut chain before the donuts themselves. Who really cares how you spell dohnut?

Hu rilly cerz hau u spel enyting do? 

[evan]

why are you putting your nuts in dough?

[FlynnCoyote]

4 minutes ago, evan said:

why are you putting your nuts in dough?

Why aren't you? 

[ArielMT]

ᛁ ᛋᛈᛖᛚᛚ ᚦᛖᛗ "ᛞᚩᚾᚢᛏᛋ"

[Thundeere]

yes