This brings to mind a comic in which Donald Duck kept yelling different spellings of “fore” on a golf course and not understanding the corrections by his fellow player.
I once dropped out of a Hospital Week spelling bee (sponsored by the Medical Transcription team for some reason) because I thought they said “androgenous,” and it was “androgynous.”
Who knew that Doughnut vs Donut would turn out to be the line in the sand that it is? Or maybe it’s not, maybe it’s just a number of people I happen to know. Then again, maybe that Boston-based chain dropped its name by half to simply “Dunkin’ “ for a reason.
This is unusual for me, but while my brain favors the correct spelling, my gut is more comfortable with the butchered spelling, at least for the kind of doughnut/donuts people mostly buy today. If you take out the sugar and the fat, there’s not much to them, so why spell it out? I don’t buy or eat doughnuts of any kind very often, so I’m happy to let the fighters fight while people eat whatever they want.
Although anyone in the doughnut camp who spells “all right” as one word with a single L, I’m not taking seriously. I’ve got my line in the sand, too.
pschearer Premium Member almost 5 years ago
I’m not laffing.
Nachikethass almost 5 years ago
DOH!
The Old Wolf almost 5 years ago
Donut do that if you want to have any friends, young lady.
sandpiper almost 5 years ago
Must be a really slow week in the inspiration department
NathandeGargoyle almost 5 years ago
Who put the ugh in donut?
Masterskrain almost 5 years ago
I think she’s trying to see if she can be any Cruller to Caulfield. And this is the Hole truth!
posse1 Premium Member almost 5 years ago
I like the re-use of a clever term!
dshans almost 5 years ago
DOH! Nut.
Wilson Lumley almost 5 years ago
Cool whip.
Masterskrain almost 5 years ago
But why don’t you ever hear of people Bakin’ Bacon? And if your shoemaker brings dessert to your pot luck, is that the Cobbler’s Cobbler?
asrialfeeple almost 5 years ago
She didn’t fall far from the tree.
fuzzbucket Premium Member almost 5 years ago
That’s good to learn early.
cervelo almost 5 years ago
I think Caulfield met his match.
willkepley almost 5 years ago
It’s LeviOOOH-saahh. Not Levio-SAAAHHH!
DonLee2 almost 5 years ago
Some jokes work in the spoken form. Some jokes work in print. Sometimes the joke is in that the two don’t always successfully interchange.
larryvanover almost 5 years ago
I doughn’t get it…
rshive almost 5 years ago
Doughnuts are great. I’m not so sure about donuts.
Fido (aka Felix Rex) Premium Member almost 5 years ago
So what do you need if you have a dull native of Warsaw?
….. wait for it ….
….. wait for it ….
Polish polish. (Or, if you need to improve your language skills in their native tongue, you’ll have to polish Polish.)
I’m here all week folks
Holilubillkori Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Larry Miller Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Once owned a Mister Donut shop where we sold doughnuts. Getting a kick out of the discussion.
Old Girl almost 5 years ago
I actually tried several minutes to make them sound different.
aKG1 almost 5 years ago
My wife’s uncle living in England spells it doughnut and pronounces it ‘dough knot’
Stephen Gilberg almost 5 years ago
This brings to mind a comic in which Donald Duck kept yelling different spellings of “fore” on a golf course and not understanding the corrections by his fellow player.
car2ner almost 5 years ago
yes, I did press the back button to reread yesterday’s strip
Concretionist almost 5 years ago
Wait’ll she discovers that she can mis-hear where you put the apostrophe!
Pipe Tobacco Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Do nut.
gcarlson almost 5 years ago
I once dropped out of a Hospital Week spelling bee (sponsored by the Medical Transcription team for some reason) because I thought they said “androgenous,” and it was “androgynous.”
djlactin almost 5 years ago
Actually, it’s a ‘doughnought’ ( a zero made of dough).
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 5 years ago
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Who knew that Doughnut vs Donut would turn out to be the line in the sand that it is? Or maybe it’s not, maybe it’s just a number of people I happen to know. Then again, maybe that Boston-based chain dropped its name by half to simply “Dunkin’ “ for a reason.
This is unusual for me, but while my brain favors the correct spelling, my gut is more comfortable with the butchered spelling, at least for the kind of doughnut/donuts people mostly buy today. If you take out the sugar and the fat, there’s not much to them, so why spell it out? I don’t buy or eat doughnuts of any kind very often, so I’m happy to let the fighters fight while people eat whatever they want.
Although anyone in the doughnut camp who spells “all right” as one word with a single L, I’m not taking seriously. I’ve got my line in the sand, too.
Jayneknox almost 5 years ago
Thank you! :)
comicsdujour almost 5 years ago
I was *just thinking that about the last strip!
billdaviswords over 3 years ago
Love “complaining recreationally”!
billdaviswords over 3 years ago
(and pssssst…. it’s “donut”)