Spelling Lesson

The other night there was a new restaurant opening near my work and they had people handing out little "Yoghurt" drinks. It wasn't a yogurt joint so I didn't get the connection.

I did get a kick out of the yoghurt spelling. I thought it was another case of mistranslation and I was bummed to once again be
without camera but I was mistaken.

Swing & A Miss



Due to budget constraints, I'm my own fact checker here at the leg. When I typed in yogurt and the dictionary returned an alternate spelling of yoghurt, I was crushed. My despair almost matched the time I discovered that female bovines due in fact have horns after taking a picture of a life sized fiberglass Holstein (fiberglass animals are somewhat of an obsession) with udders and a large set of horns. The yoghurt post much like the hermaphrodite bovine post was not meant to be.

I had no idea yogurt could be spelled with an h. Admittedly, I am a horrible speller, often believing that if a word is spelled close enough phonetically it should be good enough for my reader. Heavens, with an attitude like that how long before the English language breaks down when we're all pushing shopping carts in the post apocalyptic dawn. In my defense, blogger thinks yoghurt is a misspelled word. I can't wait for someone to challenge yoghurt in scrabble.

From Merriam Webster:

Main Entry: yo·gurt
Variant(s): also yo·ghurt \ˈyō-gərt\
Function: noun
Etymology: Turkish yoğurt
Date: 1625

: a fermented slightly acid often flavored semisolid food made of milk and milk solids to which cultures of two bacteria (Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus) have been added

From the Wiki:

In English, there are several variations of the spelling of the word. In the United States, yogurt is the usual spelling and yoghurt a minor variant. In the United Kingdom yoghurt and yogurt are both current, yoghurt being more common, and yoghourt is an uncommon alternative.[4] Canada uses yogourt; in Australia and New Zealand yoghurt prevails.[5][6]