Lets settle this shit right here and now!

Is it doughnuts, or is it donut?

if it was spelled donut you would have to put that little line over the o. to make the o sound ya know, but fuck it they taste good anyway ya spell it.

I'd give dictionary links to the correct spelling 'doughnut', but I don't really think it's necessary is it?

doughnut ha spell check dont think so

donut spell check is okay

The donut came from when the chinese came to america and started opening doughnut shops... of course, their limited spelling for a long period of time resulted in a new phonetic alternative to the word, "donut"

Its doughnut. Donut is a short version of it but not the correct way, kind of like how a lot of people use tonite when it's really tonight.

it's potato.

Word likes both spellings

I think both are right, it's more of a regional thing like soda or pop.

Where I am from we spell it Donut, and get them at Tim Hortons.

fdd2blk said:

it's potato.

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NO! It's Tomato...

doughnut down south is how you spell it. its made of dough! no DO! donut is just dunkin donuts thing.

doughnut has my vote

Doughnut is the original and correct way of spelling it. The earliest occurrence of the word is in the work of Washington Irving (1809). He had to define the word, so we can assume that it was not a widely known dish at the time, at least to his audience. And, interestingly, he defines doughnuts as "balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat". This suggests that doughnuts were not named after knots or nuts and bolts, but instead after nuts like walnuts or pecans. They were balls of dough that, when fried to a deep golden brown, resembled nuts. Doughnuts only took their torus shape to overcome a problem inherent in balls of dough - uncooked centers. Removing the centers ensured that the doughnuts would be cooked throughout.

The first known printed use of donut was in a Los Angeles Times article dated August 10, 1929. There, Bailey Millard jokingly complains about the decline of spelling, and that he "can't swallow the 'wel-dun donut' nor the ever so 'gud bred'." The interchangeability of the two spellings can be found in a series of "National Donut Week" articles in The New York Times that covered the 1939 World's Fair. In four articles beginning October 9, two mention the donut spelling. Dunkin' Donuts, which was founded in 1948 under the name Open Kettle (Quincy, Massachusetts), is the oldest surviving company to use the donut variation, but the now defunct Mayflower Donut Corporation appears to be the first company to use that spelling, having done so prior to World War II.

Kick ass. Thanks for the doughnut/donut history lesson.

It's cool when you can learn new things on the stoner website

Someone get ahold of Dan Quale...he'll know