Yum. One of my favorite wintertime dinners is features on the Yahoo! front page here:
And a similar dish is featured here:
So, my question to you is: Are they two different dishes or are the editors at Yahoo! unable to make up their mind as to the spelling of the American favorite?
November 5, 2012 at 8:16 pm
Overwhelming support for “pot pie”. Even Google and Ask, which are usually repositories of “creative spelling” have not one hit for “potpie” (The restaurant in Kansas doesn’t count.)
Example (one I found many years back; still going strong (the spelling, not the site)):
http://doyouwriteunderyourownname.blogspot.com/2012/08/ruth-rendells-thriteen-steps-down-itv.html
“Ruth Rendell’s Thriteen Steps Down – ITV review”
I’ll chalk that off to “typo”.
November 5, 2012 at 9:11 pm
And yet, the American Heritage Dictionary, which is part of the Yahoo network, spells it “potpie.” Frankly, I don’t know or care which is right. Any real news outlet would have a standard dictionary that settles issues like this. That assumes that it has competent editors and a management that cares about niceties like quality.