How do you spell potatoe?

Answer 1

Potato

Potatoes in its plural form

Answer 2

"Potatoe" and other English spelling irregularities - history - jokes

homophones - heterographs - polyvalence - silent & redundant letters
The dictionary pronunciation of POTATO is /p'-'tei-tou/
The same phonemes in Spanglish would be pateito
In U2 it would be pctAtO
In New Spelling (ca 1910) "potato" was spelled P O E T A E T O E
..where the silent e was used as a long vowel marker. /ou / was always spelled [OE]

Truespel, another reform orthography, spells POETTAETOE almost the same way. The double T indicates that the stress is on the 2nd syllable. This effectively makes the initial [oe] an unstressed vowel similar to schwa.

RES (Restored English Spelling) spells it POATAYTO.
RES uses positional spelling, the [owe] sound in the terminal position is spelled O.
This works for SILO and GAZEBO but not for follow [Sp. faalo].

Spanglish spells [potato] according to the spelling guide in the dictionary P A T Ei T O or pateita
where [a] refers to the unstressed schwa sound. [M-Webster p&'tAt&] &= schwa

Thus, Dan Quayle's spelling is not all that inaccurate. There is no need to mark a terminal vowel since it has to be free and long. The terminal [e] is unnecessary. The traditional system sometimes marks them anyway [fallow].

The final vowel in POTATO is a free vowel [not a short checked vowel]. If the pronunciation was /p&'tAto/, it could be assumed that the final vowel was either an unstressed O or an unstressed mid lax vowel.

Only free vowels can occur at the end of a word in the English writing system so the only reason to mark the vowel would be to distinguish it from another free vowel. A terminal O sound can also be found in words such as slow and follow where a marker is used. slo and follo would be sufficient. In one syllable words, a silent e is added to distinguish the word from o used as [u]. to toe tow towing towed - Spanglish: tu to to towing towd

English created a problem for itself when it adopted the practice of changing u's to o's. The pronunciation of to changed to tu. It then became necessary to mark terminal o's to distinguish them from u's. e.g., tow or toe. In Saxon, [the writing system for Old English] to would be pronounced taw or tow. [more]

The trouble with spelling is that there are too many orthographic options. Potatoe is one of the options but it is used only in the plural Potatoes . In fact, since the final O is a long vowel which is usually marked in words with fewer syllables [low, follow, foe, toe], there is a certain logic to Dan Quale's invented spelling.
The sounds of English are not linked with specific predictable spelling patterns. The better writing systems such as the ones for Italian and Spanish are over 90% predictable. If you how to pronounce a word, you know how to spell it. English is about 40% phonemic and 40% predictable. There are patterns and regularities in English. If you know the regularities then you have an 85% chance of spelling a word correctly in four tries. Several writers have equated this with 85% predictable.

For instance, if you knew that the most economical spelling would be used and where the syllable breaks were in POTATO, the spelling would be almost 100% predictable: po-ta-to. Any verb that terminates a syllable is long so the most economic spelling would be potato. pot-a-to would require a different pronunciation. 'paa-t&-tO

The most logical spelling would indicate primary stress: potayto.

Other words ending with a long-O sound [oh] are not as economic. follow should be spelled follo. The w vowel [a short u] usually adds nothing. The w is a syllable boundary marker and also indicates rounding. The double consonant [ll] indicates that the stress is on the first syllable and that it has a short vowel.

aloe would be allo if it followed pattern of shallow and had the most economic spelling. If pronounced as spelled, aloe would be similar to alone [Spanglish aloan]. According to the Merriam Webster dictionary pronunciation guide aloe = /@ 'lO/. In Menuspel / uh-low /

More Inventive Spellings

If GH stands for P as in Hiccough
If OUGH stands for O as in Dough
If PHTH stands for T as in Phthisis
If EIGH stands for A as in Neighbour
If TTE stands for T as in Gazette
If EAU stands for O as in Plateau
then POTATO could be spelled:

GHOUGHPHTHEIGHTTEEAU

Answer 3

Singular - Potato

Plural - Potatoes

Answer 4

properly, human beings insist that here grammar is right: actual everyone might desire to apply their fork to spear their potato. however the be conscious "actual everyone" is singular pronoun and required a unique pronoun. So the excellent grammar may be: actual everyone might desire to apply his fork to spear his potato. Now if on the single hand, human beings can criticize the spelling of potatoe, a wide-unfold spelling interior the nineteenth Century and whilst much as 1993, then how can they settle for and use the unsuitable grammatical use of plural pronoun to talk over with a unique pronoun, i.e. their and actual everyone are incompatible, IMHO.

Answer 5

Can Pence spell potato?

Answer 6

LOL You spelled Pot A Toe! That's funny. The correct spelling is POTATO I'm from Idaho so I should know! Eat Idaho Spuds! YUMMY!!!

Answer 7

Potato is singular form
& Potatoes is plural form.

Answer 8

potato

Answer 9

potato

Answer 10

without the e so potato

Answer 11

potato, i used the spell check!!!