Aaaaah. OK. Then it's entirely possible I saw it somewhere and was no longer sure about the spelling I learned. I have that problem often enough, since it's not as if English is terribly consistent.
Quayle was reading from cue cards, and possibly from cue cards from the spelling competition, whose winner he was congratulating. If the official competition spelling was "potatoe", who was he to argue? And I could easily get caught by "Oh... I guess without-the-e is a super-common regionalism."
Oh, ouch.
Kinda like the fact that people still think that Gore claimed to have invented the internet, I suspect.
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Date: 2004-12-16 08:12 pm (UTC)Aaaaah. OK. Then it's entirely possible I saw it somewhere and was no longer sure about the spelling I learned. I have that problem often enough, since it's not as if English is terribly consistent.
Quayle was reading from cue cards, and possibly from cue cards from the spelling competition, whose winner he was congratulating. If the official competition spelling was "potatoe", who was he to argue? And I could easily get caught by "Oh... I guess without-the-e is a super-common regionalism."
Oh, ouch.
Kinda like the fact that people still think that Gore claimed to have invented the internet, I suspect.