Doughnuts
#1
Posted 27 October 2013 - 16:15
Is Autosport not a UK publication?
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#2
Posted 27 October 2013 - 16:48
#3
Posted 27 October 2013 - 17:13
We get enough of this, please desist. Doughnut not donut.
#4
Posted 27 October 2013 - 22:09
Dough not do donut: do do doughnut
#5
Posted 29 October 2013 - 10:06
BBc show how it should be done: http://www.bbc.co.uk...rmula1/24692355
#6
Posted 29 October 2013 - 13:47
As a filthy foreigner, I must ask if when the posters are composing their diatribes are they:
a. Wearing the appropriate Union Jack vest?
b. Listening to "Land of Hope and Glory" playing at a volume guaranteed to only mildly annoy the neighbours?
c. Posting only after first having written your letter to The Times noting the falling standards of internet journalism?
d. Listening to "Jerusalem" playing at a volume guaranteed to only mildly annoy the neighbours, who could damn well do with a spot of patriotism, forcibly injected if need be, especially her at number 97 who I'm fairly sure is an immigrant, you can tell you know, and besides they could do with a dose of cold steel, they don't like it up 'em you know, don't like it up 'em at all!!
e. All of the above.
Neil
#7
Posted 29 October 2013 - 15:19
I thought it was doughnut in American English too. Donut being like 'Lite' salad dressing.
#8
Posted 29 October 2013 - 15:38
AUTOSPORT style is to use the US spelling for the celebration type.
The column does actually refer to the cake-esque type with the spelling you like.
#9
Posted 29 October 2013 - 15:48
In AutoCAD the command is Donut to draw one.
#10
Posted 29 October 2013 - 15:53
AUTOSPORT style is to use the US spelling for the celebration type.
Shouldn't it be across the board either American or British English? Or whatever International English is these days. Because you guys use 'tyres'.
#11
Posted 29 October 2013 - 19:46
Donut could be construed as being the correct spelling as it gives the impression of exuberance and frivolity which is more akin to the American way than the suppressed stiff upper lip English
Doughnut is a UK cake/pastry confection that the Americans do so much better than us too
#12
Posted 29 October 2013 - 20:23
Doughnut is a UK cake/pastry confection that the Americans do so much better than us too
The Americans do ring doughnuts, not proper doughnuts which are balls of deep fried dough containing a delicious jam filling. They are nut shaped; that's why they are called doughNUTS. That's the nut from nature, of course, not the thing with a threaded hole in the middle that screws onto a bolt. Which is more like a ring doughnut, so maybe that is where the American confusion arose. Everyone clear now?
And don't get me started on muffins...
Edited by BRG, 29 October 2013 - 20:24.
#13
Posted 29 October 2013 - 21:18
AUTOSPORT style is to use the US spelling for the celebration type.
The column does actually refer to the cake-esque type with the spelling you like.
It's a British magazine! Why use the US spelling in your style guide? Are we going to see winningest appearing in articles next? Checkered flag instead of chequered flag? Those black round things being called tires?
#14
Posted 30 October 2013 - 13:47
The Americans do ring doughnuts, not proper doughnuts which are balls of deep fried dough containing a delicious jam filling. They are nut shaped; that's why they are called doughNUTS. That's the nut from nature, of course, not the thing with a threaded hole in the middle that screws onto a bolt. Which is more like a ring doughnut, so maybe that is where the American confusion arose. Everyone clear now?
And don't get me started on muffins...
I'll just mark you down as an "e" then shall I?
Neil
#15
Posted 01 November 2013 - 13:01
I'll just mark you down as an "e" then shall I?
Neil
It is the website feedback section with a question about journalistic consistency. If you believe that suggests any kind of jingoism you could not be more wrong.
#16
Posted 01 November 2013 - 13:26
Good to see that some still have a sense of humour. Not sure I'd put 03lotsofsillynumbers in that category though.
Neil
#17
Posted 04 November 2013 - 13:53
How you wish to categorise people you do not know, if that is what you choose to do with your time, is up to you.Good to see that some still have a sense of humour. Not sure I'd put 03lotsofsillynumbers in that category though.
Neil
#18
Posted 04 November 2013 - 17:02
Interestingly, the very American Krispy Kreme company who can't even spell their own name properly, calls them 'doughnuts' on their UK packaging. They don't smell of burned rubber though, for which my waistline suffers.