Correct way to say/spell...

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Vote on the correct way to pronounce or spell words.
The result is final, and any user who spells these words differently from then on is to be shunned.

Please feel free to argue or make suggestions for future polls.

Current Question


Results

Question One
Those round dough things with the hole in the middle
Donut 33%
Doughnut 57%
Dough-nut 0%
Dough nut 0%
Do not 5%
Other 5%

Question Two
How do you spell that layered baked Italian food dish with wide pasta strips?
Lasagne 33%
Lasagna 50%
Lasagnya 0%
Lasanyan 8%
Other (write in) 8%

Question Three
How is "Lever" pronounced?
liːvər; Long "E", rhymes with fever or beaver 38%
lɛvər; Short "E", rhymes with never or clever 62%
I don't understand because the examples rhyme wrong 0%
Other (Write in) 0%

Question Four
How is the first A in Gala pronounced?
Short a; rhymes with gal or pal 50%
Rounded, short "o"-like a; rhymes with mall or ball 0%
Long a; rhymes with gay or pay 0%
[Optional] The above vote is correct for the festival, but the apple is pronounced differently 0%
Other (write in) 50%

Question Five
How do you pronounce the letter "H"?
Eych 50%
Heych 0%
Eytch 13%
Heytch 0%
Other 38%

[riskllama]

i was actually having the very same debate about lasagne/lasagna in GC earlier today...
god bless you, /

[khazalid]

form ought to be ceded to the country of origin. has to be a donut.

[warmonger1981]

Doe not

[jonesthecurl]

form ought to be ceded to the country of origin. has to be a donut.

Where do you think it originated?
Earliest reference I can find spells it "doughnut". Not that words can't change their spelling.

[khazalid]

'murica. to me a donut is way more 'murican than apple pie. why is apple pie synonymous with america anyway? anyone?

i guess you guys were more tolerant of superfluous letters back when the first 'doughnut' was fried.

[mrswdk]

According to Wikipedia they were most likely invented by either Dutch or British people.

[AndyDufresne]

'murica. to me a donut is way more 'murican than apple pie. why is apple pie synonymous with america anyway? anyone?

Well the European settlers mighty loved the pie, and then when they became residents on this side, they continued to eat it. Then I think propaganda and marketing too over in the late 19th and early 20th century.


--Andy

[Dukasaur]

'murica. to me a donut is way more 'murican than apple pie. why is apple pie synonymous with america anyway? anyone?

Well the European settlers mighty loved the pie, and then when they became residents on this side, they continued to eat it. Then I think propaganda and marketing too over in the late 19th and early 20th century.


--Andy

In most of the world apples were an expensive treat. In America, apple trees grew like weeds, and thus apples were very cheap. Apple pies were cheaper and more plentiful than any other kind, and so became kind-of the everyman's dessert.

i guess you guys were more tolerant of superfluous letters back when the first 'doughnut' was fried.

The letters are not superfluous. It's a lump of dough, shaped like a nut. "Doughnut" describes it exactly. "Donut" says nothing meaningful.

Although, now that most doughnuts no longer have fruit in the centre, and have a big hole where the fruit used to be, I guess "doughnut" no longer describes them perfectly, at least not the more pedestrian varieties. Maybe we should start calling them "doughtires".

[Metsfanmax]

Maybe we should start calling them "doughtires".

Doughtorii

[JamesKer1]

Maybe we should start calling them "doughtires".

The first time I have ever gotten an image to work, just by the way. It's best that it's this one.

[Metsfanmax]

Maybe we should start calling them "doughtires".

The first time I have ever gotten an image to work, just by the way. It's best that it's this one.

I think you can safely retire now. It will only be downhill from there.

[TA1LGUNN3R]

'murica. to me a donut is way more 'murican than apple pie. why is apple pie synonymous with america anyway? anyone?

i guess you guys were more tolerant of superfluous letters back when the first 'doughnut' was fried.

Johnny fuckin' Appleseed.

-TG

[tzor]

Just the way Homer Simpson says it; slowly with awe and reverence.

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Horay! Doughnut won as it should have.
Unfortunately due to some vagueness in the question, "bagel" may also now be spelled "doughnut". We will be working on sorting this out as soon as possible.

New poll up for riskllama.

[mrswdk]

inb4 'lasagne is American'

[notyou2]

Italian layer cake




inb4 mrswdk claims the chinese invented it

[mrswdk]

Italian layer cake




inb4 mrswdk claims the chinese invented it

The Chinese invented pasta, so kinda.

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Garfield wins!

[mrswdk]

That's a joystick.

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That's a joystick.

Joysticks aren't limp.

[mrswdk]

And the joystick in OP is not limp.

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Fine, I'll defer to your expertise on the erectness of sticks, mrswdk.

Alt pic here, since editing the OP will most likely screw the poll up.

[JamesKer1]

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013 ... .html?_r=0

[notyou2]

What if you pronounce the joystick version one way and the soap another?

Will this result in a tear in the fabric of the time space continuum?