Tag Alias: doughnut -> donut

Aliasing doughnut -> donut.

Reason: Alternate spelling. The former is the traditional spelling, but it seems the latter is more popular based on the number of posts with the "donut" tag.

For consistency, I'm suggesting "doughnuts --> donut" as well.

I'd strongly prefer doughnut.

Wikipedia said:
Doughnut is the more traditional spelling, and still dominates outside the US. At present, doughnut and the shortened form donut are both pervasive in American English. 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.

So yeah, who knows. I don't mind either one. By the way, we do usually prefer American spelling over British, right?

0xCCBA696 said: So yeah, who knows. I don't mind either one. By the way, we do usually prefer American spelling over British, right?

Not consciously/explicitly, but yes. You won't see an alternate_colours tag, for example.

That said I kinda like doughnut too.

I'm weird, I'm an American, but I strongly prefer "doughnut", "grey", and "axe". I don't much like "colour" though.

Shinjidude said:
I strongly prefer "doughnut", "grey", and "axe".

Judging from the etymology lesson on Wikipedia, "doughnut" came first, then "donut" as a lazier spelling 100 years later.

So, +1 for doughnut.

IIRC, doughnut shops had to pay per letter for their big signs, so they shortened the word to "donut" to save money.

I don't know if that's actually true, or if that's the primary reason for the widespread usage of the spelling.

Aliased to doughnut.

How about the pluralization tags, i.e. "donuts --> doughnut" and "doughnuts --> doughnut"? I've somewhat suggested that earlier, albeit in reverse.

I'd already done donoughts> when I first did the alias, but I added donuts> now too.