Donut

Okay so I'm making this quick cause I'm supposed to be drinking in my kitchen right now. But what's up with Donut? I mean honestly.


Okay lets do a little pop quiz. 


How would you pronounce 'do'?


Now how would you pronounce 'dough'?


Now how would you pronounce 'donut'?


See what I did there?


For us English folks, it would clearly be doughnut. It's a name made up of another two names and sounds as such, so we would ask why the hell have they dropped the u, the g and the h? I know Americans seem to love dropping u's anyway. With their color and flavor etc. But here they've dropped two entirely functional letters that phonetically pretty much make the word. I only moan here because when I see 'donut' I know I'm always going to pronounce it 'do-nut' no matter how hard I try to get it stuck in my head that it should be pronounced 'dough-nut'. Maybe I should just avoid them entirely.


Anyway moving on. Been talking to my uncle and the current MPhys guy out there about American customs and getting by. Apparently the word 'cunt' is extremely taboo. I can understand that, that seems reasonable. It's not a nice word anyway and there's much better words for describing that area (except fanny which means bum over there. I don't think I can ever hear fanny-pack without giggling). And I don't usually say cunt anyway. I may swear from time to time but it's always usually 'fuck my toe', or 'shit my angle', or 'screw you you whore'. But now I know it's taboo I just know I'm going to accidently say it. Not just once but constantly like my mind is trying to make life harder for me. I'm going to reference it in all manner of things I can tell. I'll probably start using it as a celebratory word knowing me ("Cunt yes! The Pie is done"). Maybe I can try and pass off that it means something else in Britain. Just like the word fag. Fag I will have fun with. Even though I know it means gay over there I'm going to constantly say such things as "Wanna head outside? I fancy a fag" to people and see how quickly I can make friends...


My uncle says it's very PC in some parts of America and that if you call a black person black it's extremely offensive and you should always refer to them as 'African American'. That will take some getting used to. How can I assume they're American for example? What if they're British as well. Or some completely different country from America. Or even if they're actually from Africa. I wouldn't like it if someone referred to me as 'Caucasian American'. I'd be like 'say what!?'. In fact calling someone African American is basically the same as calling me 'European American' or even 'European British' if they knew me better. Doesn't really have the same ring to it.