From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Received: (qmail 22548 invoked from network); 3 Feb 2002 14:30:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (199.232.76.164) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 Feb 2002 14:30:46 -0000 Received: from nile.gnat.com ([205.232.38.5]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16XNfK-0006Ce-00 for ; Sun, 03 Feb 2002 09:30:46 -0500 Received: by nile.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 338) id 7F863F28F3; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 09:30:45 -0500 (EST) To: neil@daikokuya.demon.co.uk, per@bothner.com Subject: Re: Typo. (off-topic) Cc: gcc@gnu.org, kth@srv.net, tim@hollebeek.com Message-Id: <20020203143045.7F863F28F3@nile.gnat.com> Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 10:52:00 -0000 From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg00101.txt.bz2 I hate to add to this sadly off topic exchange, but sorry I can't resist > potato(e). While that isn't a falsehood, it is a bit unfair, > since many people (including the Britsh IIRC) do spell it with an 'e'. This is of course entirely false. It probably comes from some marvelously amusing "spinning" that Quayle's staff did in the aftermath of the potatoe debacle. On the McNeil Lehrer report, I saw his chief campaign manager claiming that the English have spelled Potato with an E, and that in particular "I believe Chaucer used this spelling". I trust people know enough about where the potato came from to understand why this is so amusing (if not, look it up :-) Robert Dewar P.S. someone gave me a T-shirt as a present that has POTATO on the front and on the back says "Member of the Cultural Elite" :-)