Spell Potato With An E

No that s not the correct way to spell potato.

Spell potato with an e. The singular spelling of potato doesn t contain the letter e so it is somewhat understandable that people would get confused when the plural does. The correct plural spelling is potatoes. None of your f ing business.

Ironically the alternate spelling potatoe while uncommon was still used infrequently at that time. Potatos is a common misspelling. If you struggle with spelling you re not alone.

Sometimes i forget there isn t an e until i wrote potatoe and i look like nah that s wrong. No e the way you spelled it was correct. The seven ways of spelling the long e sound.

The singular possessive is potato s refers to one potato the plural is potatoes and the plural possessive is potatoes more than one potato. The spelling for e is. In a room filled with reporters quayle called 12 year old william figueroa to the board prompting him to spell potato figueroa stepped up correctly spelled potato erased the word and went to sit down until the vice president stopped him saying hold on now add a little to the end there.

This week we re looking at the long e sound and the seven different ways of spelling it. I kept thinking how the hell did i spell potato. One of the reasons why english spelling is so difficult is because of how inconsistent it is.

Despite the ensuing applause from the adults in the room figueroa knew he had spelled it correctly the first time. Dan quayle misspells potato more during a visit to a trenton new jersey school the former vice president told a student to add an e at the end of the word. How to use potato in a sentence.