Doughnuts

We get enough of this, please desist. Doughnut not donut.

Dough not do donut: do do doughnut 

BBc show how it should be done: http://www.bbc.co.uk...rmula1/24692355

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

I thought it was doughnut in American English too. Donut being like 'Lite' salad dressing.

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. 

In AutoCAD the command is Donut to draw one.

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'.

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.

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?

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

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. 

Good to see that some still have a sense of humour.  Not sure I'd put 03lotsofsillynumbers in that category though. 

Neil

Good to see that some still have a sense of humour.  Not sure I'd put 03lotsofsillynumbers in that category though. 

Neil

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.