Poll: Doughnut or Donut?

[NikkiKaji]

Doughnut or donut? Which way do you spell it?

 

[badcrumbs]

Doughnut.

"Donut" is to doughnut, what "Froot" is to fruit. Stuff like that bothers the crap out of me.

 

[DarkDesertFox]

Ugh. That's how I feel adding the extra "ugh" letters when typing it. Donut is a lot easier.

 

[Pug]

donut looks cooler

 

[Improv]

doughnut because i'm not stupid

 

[PlasmaPower]

Any reason why there are two ways of spelling the word of a piece of dough with a hole in the center?

 

[Moddie]

Doughnut because I pronounce both differently and donut just doesn't sound correct.
(Donut I pronounce as - Do-Not.)

 

[badcrumbs]

Any reason why there are two ways of spelling the word of a piece of dough with a hole in the center?

Dunkin' Donuts is basically responsible for the popularity of "Donut". It's been around a long time, but they made it more common.

 

[Liseli]

I spell it donut by habit.

 

[Dae Min]

I've always spelled it as donut, but I'm trying to change to doughnut

 

[Ragdoll]

if its spelt doughnut, shouldnt it be a piece of dough with nuts in it? js lol

 

[badcrumbs]

if its spelt doughnut, shouldnt it be a piece of dough with nuts in it? js lol

"Of course doughnuts in some form or other have been around so long that archaeologists keep turning up fossilized bits of what look like doughnuts in the middens of prehistoric Native American settlements. But the doughnut proper (if that's the right word) supposedly came to Manhattan (then still New Amsterdam) under the unappetizing Dutch name of olykoeks--"oily cakes."

Fast-forward to the mid-19th century and Elizabeth Gregory, a New England ship captain's mother who made a wicked deep-fried dough that cleverly used her son's spice cargo of nutmeg and cinnamon, along with lemon rind. Some say she made it so son Hanson and his crew could store a pastry on long voyages, one that might help ward off scurvy and colds. In any case, Mrs. Gregory put hazelnuts or walnuts in the center, where the dough might not cook through, and in a literal-minded way called them doughnuts."

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-history-of-the-doughnut-150405177/#qmDOxQEg0OWggQzQ.99

I'm passionate about doughnuts.

 

[Stevey Queen]

I honestly forgot donut was spelled doughnut. Even my grocery store's bakery spells them like donut.

This thread has been enlightening.

 

[Rizies]

I tend to use both interchangeably.

Even though it's not grammatically correct in any sense, but I associate "donut" with Dunken Donuts, which then I think American spelling. I have a very bad habit of using the American vs Canadian spelling variations interchangeably.

 

[NikkiKaji]

I honestly forgot donut was spelled doughnut. Even my grocery store's bakery spells them like donut.

This thread has been enlightening.

lol same.

 

[Ramza]

doenaught

 

[Mariah]

I've never referred to it as a "donut".

 

[Llust]

I'd rather not spell it as 'doughnut,' it reminds me of this guy who always referred to them as dognuts (dog-nuts)

 

[Zeiro]

Donut is the simplified version

I spell it donut

 

[Peebers]

Doughnut ;v;