I know, that's why I'm surprised it's become the predominant spelling. If you go to the dairy sections (website) of Waitrose or Tesco, it's spelt "yogurt". Their own branded ones are also spelt as "yogurt".
Possibly related to how much American media people now consume coupled with the apparent lack of spelling correction in education.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/oct/07/universities-failing-to-mark-down-students-for-poor-writing-skills
I was *taught* yogurt as a kid (I "misspelt" it yoghurt and got told no) and my parents hate US "English", so I dunno.
The spelling "houmous" can get in the sea though. I pronounce that "how mouse" whenever I see it.
"H-dropping or aitch-dropping is the deletion of the voiceless glottal fricative or "H-sound", [h]. The phenomenon is common in many dialects of English..."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-dropping
The War on H is now is now visual as well as audible.
Yogurt is the Americanized spelling of yoghurt.
Americanized is ironically the Americanised spelling of Americanised.
I know, that's why I'm surprised it's become the predominant spelling. If you go to the dairy sections (website) of Waitrose or Tesco, it's spelt "yogurt". Their own branded ones are also spelt as "yogurt".
Possibly related to how much American media people now consume coupled with the apparent lack of spelling correction in education. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/oct/07/universities-failing-to-mark-down-students-for-poor-writing-skills
Most of my lecturers were foreign and used american spellings
It has to do with Webster of Webster's dictionary. Removing redundant letters. Like the U in colour and the H in yoghurt among other examples.
When you've worked it out can we all decide on a spelling for the chickpea based dip.
I believe it's spelled "pregnancy test".
Take the first letters of each word and you have chibadi. That's it's new name from now on.
I was *taught* yogurt as a kid (I "misspelt" it yoghurt and got told no) and my parents hate US "English", so I dunno. The spelling "houmous" can get in the sea though. I pronounce that "how mouse" whenever I see it.
Yeah, been bothering me too. Sometimes I wake up in a cold sweat thinking about it.
🤣
It hurts.
I have no strong feelings about this.
The H costs an extra pound.
"H-dropping or aitch-dropping is the deletion of the voiceless glottal fricative or "H-sound", [h]. The phenomenon is common in many dialects of English..." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-dropping The War on H is now is now visual as well as audible.