To everyone British in the forums , when someone says ‘doughnut’ which spelling comes to mind ? American or English?
Now this is someone who has the right idea, as long as it can be shoved in the food hole in your face nobody should care how it's going to be spelt.........
I believe the "donut" was invented in the Netherlands, so maybe one of our Dutch members can settle this very important question.
I either go for Jam or Custard, either's good. There's a shop called Planet Doughnut that do a variety of amazing doughnuts. They're a bit more on the expensive side but great for a treat
At least to more traditionally-minded Americans, it's "doughnut" as well. "Donut" is a lazy commercial neologism, like "nite"
I don't know what it's called outside of Germany. I'm from Germany and here the thing has different names depending on which region you come from.
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I has to be doughnut, I have never even seen an American spell it Donut! The poll results are worrying, the dumbing down of our beautiful language is gathering pace! Keats, Chaucer, Parry and the like must be spinning in their graves!
Did Chaucer have a donut shoppe in his neighborhood? I believe there's one in Canterbury. (By the way, "donut" has been in use in the US for at least 100 years and all dictionaries allow it).
Okay well I stand (well sit to be precise) corrected, although I made a quick straw poll of two Americans I know and they said doughnut but they have lived here for some time! However if British people are more likely to spell it as Donut then I fear the worse. It is irritating enough hearing radio/TV interviews with words such as "like", "so", "you know" making up half the words in a sentence. We will get to the point where half the Oxford dictionary has disappeared and the remainder will be of one or two syllables, altered beyond recognition or "new" words which only the youth of today understand! It fair chills the soul.
I’m British and I say donut. but then I say train station so make of that what you will (can be a controversial phrase amongst spotters and photters in the UK)
I'm also British, (though technically half Irish, but it matters not), and i can hardly speak or spell what would be called proper English, but can eat copious amounts of the sugary goodies in question no matter how you spell or speak it, ringed or filled with stuff, they all live happily ever after in my ever growing fat sack that is my belly........
On the topic of doughnuts/donuts so apparently Japan uses red beans for inside a doughnut/donut I don't know why also in Japan this is how they say doughnut/donut ドーナツ this is the how they spell it Dōnatsu is how you pernounce it
Right. Here is the definitive answer as written in the JED (Juniorhornet English Dictionary). DOUGHNUT: The yummy jam/jelly filled or ice topped cholesterol packed loveliness you get in bakers shops. DONUT: Those horrible fried ring things that taste of chip fat that you get at the seaside.
Oh yes we have had it for a few years. I think celebrities started it and now it seems to have become endemic. Even scholars, professors, professionals and others experts don't seem to be able to give a TV or Radio interval without the insertions of all these unnecessary and grammatically incorrect words. "I was like walking along the road you know, and like I saw an erm person like......." etc, etc. And starting sentences with so, where does that come from? I found myself doing the other day! Plus management speak, "lets run this idea up the flag pole and hopefully it will result in some blue sky thinking which we can then roll out to other advocates etc, etc". It drives me bonkers, I feel I am waging a one person war!