On Tue, August 29, 2006 12:30 pm, jdow wrote: > > And potatoe WAS/IS a legitimate spelling for potato in the US at the > time illiterate lefties made it a means of tarring Dan Quayle. But Dan Quayle was correcting a school child who spelled it "potato", so presumably he is at least as illiterate as your lefties since he didn't know that potato was also correct. Steve